Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica

by Marc Edelman

Book Overview

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"