Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of Figures and Tables viii
List of Abbreviations ix
Note on Contributors xii
1 Introduction – Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity:
Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political
Economy 1
Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber
Part 1
The ‘New’ Working Class: Decomposition and Recomposition
under Neoliberalism
2 Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia:
The ‘New Working Class’, the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and
Public Services 29
Susan Spronk
3 The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular
Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since
the 1990s 52
Mariano Féliz
4 The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina:
Kirchner’s ‘Solution’ to the Crisis of 2001 73
Emilia Castorina
5 Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export
Horticulture 98
Ben Selwyn
6 Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Rôle
of the Party 120
Gabriel Hetland
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