TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shultz,Jim
AU  - Draper,Melissa Crane
TI  - Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization
SN  - 9780520942660
AV  - HF1511 .D546 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - CA
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Bolivia
KW  - Foreign economic relations
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Investments, Foreign
KW  - Business
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Cochabamba Water Revolt and Its Aftermath; 2. A River Turns Black: Enron and Shell Spread Destruction across Bolivia's Highlands; 3. Oil and Gas: The Elusive Wealth beneath Their Feet; 4. Lessons in Blood and Fire: The Deadly Consequences of IMF Economics; 5. Economic Strings: The Politics of Foreign Debt; 6. Coca: The Leaf at the Center of the War on Drugs; 7. Workers, Leaders, and Mothers: Bolivian Women in a Globalizing World; 8. And Those Who Left: Portraits of a Bolivian Exodus; Conclusion: What Bolivia Teaches Us; Jim Shultz ContributorsNotes; Index; 2; b
N2  - Dignity and Defiance is a powerful, eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews, this story comes alive with first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood it threatens, of the young people who stood down a former dictator to take back control of their water, and of Bolivia's dramatic and successful challenge to the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Featuring a substantial introduction, a conclusion, and introductions to each of the c
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