Social Movements and Economic Transition: Markets and Distributive Conflict in Mexico

by Heather L. Williams

• ISBN13: 9780521772563
• ISBN10: 0521772567
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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	viii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(20)
Part I
Markets, Machine Politics, and Protest in Mexico	21	(36)
The Insurgent's Toolbox	57	(32)
Part II
Privatization and Protest in a Steel Town	89	(34)
Shifting Markets, Shifting Demands in Lazaro Cardenas	123	(28)
The Rise of the Barzon Farmers' Movement in Zacatecas	151	(28)
The Barzon Movement: From a Farmers' to a Debtors' Insurgency	179	(28)
Conclusion The Interplay of Movements and Markets	207	(14)
References	221	(12)
Interviews Cited	233	(2)
Index	235