Almeida, Paul D. 2007. “Defensive Mobilization: Popular Movements Against Economic Adjustment Policies in Latin America.” Latin American Perspectives 34(3):123–139.
Abstract
In the current wave of defensive collective action across Latin America in response toneoliberal globalization, working-class groups appear most frequently in the documentedprotest events. The new wave of popular movement activity emerged in the region in thelate 1990s and early twenty-first century and is driven by the erosion of the economicand social benefits previously available to the popular classes during the period of stateleddevelopment.