Social Movements and Economic Transition

Markets and Distributive Conflict in Mexico

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Av Heather L. Williams, California) Williams, Heather L. (Pomona College, Williams Heather L.

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This book examines patterns of political mobilization among groups in Mexico whose livelihoods have been threatened by trade opening, fiscal retrenchment, and market liberalization. Using data from case studies of a worker-based movement and a farmer-based movement, Williams argues that economic transition, in altering modes of state-society bargaining, has shifted the locus of contention and has altered the form and shape of distributive protest. Williams further argues that social movements make strategic choices in their use of resources in order to widen their constituencies and extend the length of their insurgencies.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-01-18
Mått152 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521032827

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List of figures and tables, Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: 1. Markets, machine politics and protest in Mexico; 2. The insurgent's toolbox; Part II: 3. Privatization and protest in a steel town; 4. Shifting markets, shifting demands in Lázaro Cárdenas; 5. The rise of the Barzón farmers' movement in Zacatecas; 6. The Barzón movement: from a farmers' to a debtors' insurgency; Conclusion: the interplay of movements and markets; References; Interviews cited; Index.

'This richly documented and thoughtful book illuminates how Mexico's crisis and market transition have altered the channels and the means that groups have at their disposal to pressure the Mexican state. Rather than focus on either political economic changes or on the sociology of protest, Williams links the two dynamically, coming up with a fresh analysis of how state-society negotiation over distributive issues has changed. Her explanation predicts (and now postdicts) why it was no longer possible for the Mexican political elite to manage consent and hold off political change.' Sid Tarrow, Cornell University