| Description |
xxiv, 290 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
A BK currents book |
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BK currents book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index. |
| Summary |
Privatization is one of the most important political and economic developments of our time, affecting virtually every person and state in the world. The purpose of The Fox in the Henhouse is to present, in clear, direct terms, an analysis of privatization that helps readers understand what is happening to them and what they can do about it. It gives people on all sides of many different privatization struggles-- over hospitals, schools, sanitation, water, Social Security, the military, public lands, the postal service, national parks, prisons-- the arguments that have been used to place privatization at the center of the corporate agenda and to dominate the public debate. It also offers a historical framework that allows readers to center their thinking on what it means to build a democratic society, while providing the counterarguments -- and inspiration -- that people need both to argue and to fight back. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Troy Duster -- Foreword / Amy Goodman -- Preface : who we are, why we care -- Introduction : a road map -- Ch. 1. "Morning in America"? -- Ch. 2. Drawing the line : private versus public goods -- Ch. 3. Introducing corporations -- Ch. 4. Forms of privatization -- Ch. 5. A worst-case scenario : for-profit private prisons -- Ch. 6. Tracking and backtracking politicians -- Ch. 7. Keep the paying guests coming : filling up the prisons -- Ch. 8. We love this problem : lives for sale -- Ch. 9. Don't fence me in : private walls and public rights -- Ch. 10. Privatizing against equality -- Ch. 11. Minds for sale -- Ch. 12. Privatizing social security : a case study of ideology, strategy, tactics. |
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Ch. 13. The two cultures of the twenty-first century -- Ch. 14. Appreciating the public sector -- Ch. 15. A fable, and a fabulous true story -- Ch. 16. An offer no corporation could refuse -- Ch. 17. The American dream-always at risk -- Ch. 18. Differing visions, conflicting values -- Ch. 19. "Trickling down" into the 1980s and 1990s -- Ch. 20. Methods that affect our lives -- Ch. 21. Resistant strengths Afterword - Returning home, remembering meanings of freedom. |
| Subject |
Privatization -- United States.
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Democracy -- United States.
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Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077
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Privatization. (OCoLC)fst01077649
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Privatisering.
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Collectieve sector.
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Politieke situatie.
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| Added Author |
Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck.
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| ISBN |
1576753379 |
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9781576753378 |
| Standard No. |
9781576753378 |
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