John Walton holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment (1984) and most recently Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California (1992).David Seddon is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, and has written extensively on "the politics of structural adjustment".

• List of Tables. Acknowledgements.Part I: Introduction:.1. Global Adjustment.2. Food Riots Past and Present.Part II: Case Studies:.3. Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programs.4. Latin America: Popular Protest and the State.5. Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa.6. The Middle East and North Africa.7. The Asian Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment and Popular Protest in India.8. Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism and the 'Open Economy'.9. The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern Europe.Part III: Conclusion:.10. Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition.Bibliography.Index.

John Walton holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment (1984) and most recently Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California (1992).David Seddon is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, and has written extensively on "the politics of structural adjustment".

• List of Tables. Acknowledgements.Part I: Introduction:.1. Global Adjustment.2. Food Riots Past and Present.Part II: Case Studies:.3. Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programs.4. Latin America: Popular Protest and the State.5. Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa.6. The Middle East and North Africa.7. The Asian Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment and Popular Protest in India.8. Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism and the 'Open Economy'.9. The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern Europe.Part III: Conclusion:.10. Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition.Bibliography.Index.

John Walton holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment (1984) and most recently Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California (1992).David Seddon is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, and has written extensively on "the politics of structural adjustment".

• List of Tables. Acknowledgements.Part I: Introduction:.1. Global Adjustment.2. Food Riots Past and Present.Part II: Case Studies:.3. Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programs.4. Latin America: Popular Protest and the State.5. Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa.6. The Middle East and North Africa.7. The Asian Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment and Popular Protest in India.8. Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism and the 'Open Economy'.9. The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern Europe.Part III: Conclusion:.10. Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition.Bibliography.Index.