{"product_id":"free-markets-food-riots-john-k-walton-9780631182474","title":"Free Markets \u0026 Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment","description":"This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic \"reform\" and \"adjustment\". \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970s\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArgues that modern austerity protests, like the classical \"bread riots\" in eighteenth-century Europe are political acts aimed at injustice, but acts that are an integral part of the process of international economic and political restructuring\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEvaluates how modern food riots are most important for what they reveal about global economic transformation and its social, and political, consequences\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a general framework (drawing on comparative and historical material) and then trace the cycle of uneven development, debt, neo-liberal reform, and protest in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocusses on the role of women in structural adjustment and protest politics and the features of seemingly anomalous cases which qualify the general argument\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John K. Walton, David Seddon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0631182470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780631182474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d","brand":"John K. Walton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059431862527,"sku":"9780631182474","price":43.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e395cb5-9c54-4aea-a955-143b3157691a.jpg?v=1685058188","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/free-markets-food-riots-john-k-walton-9780631182474","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}