Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction - Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy / Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber -- 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 Rôle 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 -- 9 Conspicuous Silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neostructuralist 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 -- References -- Index.

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