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1. Introduction - Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy

Susan Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber



PART I: THE 'NEW' WORKING CLASS: DECOMPOSITION AND RE-COMPOSITION UNDER NEOLIBERALISM

2. Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The 'New Working Class', the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services, Susan Spronk

3. The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990s, Mariano Féliz

4. The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner's 'Solution' to the Crisis of 2001, Emilia Castorina

5. Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture, Ben Selwyn

6. Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Role of the Party, Gabriel Hetland

7. Venezuela's Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle, Dario Azzellini

8. Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in Venezuela, Thomas F. Purcell



PART II: STATE AND MARKET IN LATE CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT

9. Conspicuous silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neo-structuralist Thought, Juan Grigera

10. Sugarcane Ethanol: the Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula's Brazil, Leandro Vergara-Camus

11. From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina, Nicolas Grinberg and Guido Starosta

12. The Three Dimensions of the Crisis, Claudio Katz

13. Revolution against 'Progress': Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the TIPNIS Conflict in Bolivia, Jeffery R. Webber



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