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Cambridge Social Movements and Economic Transition Markets and Distributive Conflict in Mexico 2015 Edition by Heather L. Williams
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. Table of contents :- 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 Lazaro Cardenas; 5. The rise of the Barzon farmers' movement in Zacatecas; 6. The Barzon movement: from a farmers' to a debtors' insurgency; Conclusion: the interplay of movements and markets; References; Interviews cited; Index.