Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002

Book Overview

Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies-encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state, and embracing the market as a regulator of both the economy and society-produced an economic boom that some have hailed as a "miracle" to be emulated by other Latin American countries. But how have Chile's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082233321X
• ISBN13: 9780822333210
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"