Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index.
Table of Contents; Foreword; Foreword; Preface: Who We Are, Why We Care; Introduction: A Road Map; PART I: Public, It's Ours; Private, It's Theirs; Chapter 1 "Morning in America"?; Chapter 2 Drawing the Line: Private Versus Public Goods; Chapter 3 Introducing Corporations; Chapter 4 Forms of Privatization; PART II: Privatization at Work; Chapter 5 A Worst-Case Scenario: For-Profit Private Prisons; Chapter 6 Tracking and Backtracking Politicians; Chapter 7 Keep the Paying Guests Coming: Filling Up the Prisons; Chapter 8 We Love This Problem: Lives for Sale
Chapter 19 "Trickling Down" into the 1980s and 1990sChapter 20 Methods That Affect Our Lives; Chapter 21 Resistant Strengths; Afterword: Returning Home, Remembering Meanings of Freedom; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Resources; About the Authors
Chapter 9 Don't Fence Me In: Private Walls and Public RightsChapter 10 Privatizing Against Equality; Chapter 11 Minds for Sale; Chapter 12 Privatizing Social Security: A Case Study of Ideology, Strategy, Tactics; PART III: The Great Divide; Chapter 13 The Two Cultures of the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 14 Appreciating the Public Sector; Chapter 15 A Fable, and a Fabulous True Story; Chapter 16 An Offer No Corporation Could Refuse; PART IV: Freedom, Revolution, Progress; Chapter 17 The American Dream-Always at Risk; Chapter 18 Differing Visions, Conflicting Values
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Takes an in-depth look at the practice of privatization. The purpose of this book is to present an analysis of privatisation that will help people understand what is happening to them, and what they can do about it. It provides a framework that allows readers to center their thinking in questions of what it means to build a democratic society.
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Fox in the henhouse.
9781576753378
Democracy-- United States.
Privatization-- United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Structural Adjustment.
Collectieve sector.
Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Economic Policy.