Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica
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This book tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare states. In the early 1980s, the Latin American debt crisis struck Costa Rica, leading to major cutbacks in the social programs that had permitted the rural poor to attain an acceptable standard of living and a modicum of dignity. Peasants were in the forefront of movements...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0804736936
ISBN13:9780804736930
Release Date:November 1999
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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