The fox in the henhouse : how privatization threatens democracy /
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 happen...
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San Francisco, CA :
Berrett-Koehler,
2005
San Francisco, CA : c2005 |
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Table of 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
- 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.
- 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.