Social Movements and Free-Market Capitalism in Latin America
Telecommunications Privatization and the Rise of Consumer Protest
Explores how privatization of state-owned telephone companies led to new consumer movements in Latin America.This innovative book examines how the privatization and reregulation of the telecommunications sectors in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s provoked the rise of new consumer protest movements in Latin America. Sybil Rhodes looks at how hasty privatization of state-owned telephone companies led to short-term economic windfalls for multinational corporations but long-term instability due to consumer movements or the threat of them. Eventually these governments implemented consumer-friendly regulation as a belated form o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7914-8258-2
- EAN: 9780791482582
- Produktnummer: 35072824
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'463 KB
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