NO. 71 SPRING 2007
THE CLASS POLITICS OF PRIVATIZATION
Issue Editor: Jennifer Klein
Introduction (See Abstract)
Jennifer Klein
Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatization in Bolivia: The Historical Challenge of Clientelism (See Abstract)
Susan Spronk
There's Tragedy on Both Sides of the Layoffs: Privatization and the Urban Crisis in Baltimore (See Abstract)
Jane Berger
Privatization and the Historical Trajectory of Social Movement Unionism: A Case Study of Municipal Workers in Johannesburg (See Abstract)
Franco Barchiesi
The Two Faces of Petr Arkadeevich: Land and Dispossession in Russia’s Southwest, ca. 2000 (See Abstract)
Jessica Allina-Pisano
The Hospital Employees’ Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in British Columbia, Canada (See Abstract)
Benjamin Isitt, Melissa Moroz
The Privatization of New York City’s Central Park: A Class-Based Interpretation (See Abstract)
Oliver Cooke
Workforce Responses to the Creeping Privatization of the UK National Health Service (See Abstract)
Rebecca Kolins Givan, Stephen Bach
The Politics of Ports: Privatization and the World’s Ports (See Abstract)
Colin Davis
ARTICLES
‘Blame the System, Not the Victim!’ Organizing the Unemployed in New Zealand, 1983-1992 (See Abstract)
Cybele Locke
Racism in a "Raceless" Society: The Soviet Press and Representations of American Racial Violence at Stalingrad, 1930 (See Abstract)
Meredith Roman
BOOK REVIEWS
The Moral Significance of Class, by Andrew Sayer
Reviewed by Siobhán McGrath
Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932, by Kate Transchel
Reviewed by Julie Hessler
Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius, by Megan Vaughan
Reviewed by Anne Pérotin-Dumon
Los Artistas del Pueblo: Prints and Workers' Culture in Buenos Aires, 1917-1935, by Patrick Frank
Reviewed by Oscar Chamosa
Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí, by Jane E. Mangan
Reviewed by Ann Zulawski
Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaraugua, by Elizabeth Dore
Reviewed by Arthur Schmidt
Eric Williams & The Making of the Modern Caribbean, by Colin A. Palmer
Reviewed by Godfrey Vincent
Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago, by Nicholas De Genova
Reviewed by Mathew Gritter
