The Fox in the Henhouse How Privatization Threatens Democracy,9781576753378

The Fox in the Henhouse How Privatization Threatens Democracy

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ISBN13: 9781576753378
ISBN10: 1576753379
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-16
Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Summary

The Fox in the Henhouse looks in-depth at the growing practice of privatization: what it is, what it does to our society and how we can stop it. The authors offer strategies and tactics for creating alternatives to privatization that will strengthen society and the power of democracy.

Author Biography

Si Kahn is executive director of Grassroots Leadership and a singer and songwriter with fifteen CDs to his credit Elizabeth Minnich is Senior Fellow at the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Table of Contents

Foreword by Troy Duster viii
Foreword by Amy Goodman xii
Preface Who We Are, Why We Care xv
Introduction A Road Map 1(14)
PART I Public, It's Ours; Private, It's Theirs 15(56)
Chapter 1 "Morning in America"?
17(8)
Chapter 2 Drawing the Line: Private Versus Public Goods
25(15)
Chapter 3 Introducing Corporations
40(13)
Chapter 4 Forms of Privatization
53(18)
PART II Privatization at Work 71(86)
Chapter 5 A Worst-Case Scenario: For-Profit Private Prisons
73(15)
Chapter 6 Tracking and Backtracking Politicians
88(7)
Chapter 7 Keep the Paying Guests Coming: Filling Up the Prisons
95(7)
Chapter 8 We Love This Problem: Lives for Sale
102(12)
Chapter 9 Don't Fence Me In: Private Walls and Public Rights
114(13)
Chapter 10 Privatizing Against Equality
127(11)
Chapter 11 Minds for Sale
138(9)
Chapter 12 Privatizing Social Security: A Case Study of Ideology, Strategy, Tactics
147(10)
PART III The Great Divide 157(42)
Chapter 13 The Two Cultures of the Twenty-First Century
159(14)
Chapter 14 Appreciating the Public Sector
173(7)
Chapter 15 A Fable, and a Fabulous True Story
180(10)
Chapter 16 An Offer No Corporation Could Refuse
190(9)
PART IV Freedom, Revolution, Progress 199(50)
Chapter 17 The American Dream—Always at Risk
201(12)
Chapter 18 Differing Visions, Conflicting Values
213(3)
Chapter 19 "Trickling Down" into the 1980's and 1990's
216(10)
Chapter 20 Methods That Affect Our Lives
226(13)
Chapter 21 Resistant Strengths
239(10)
Afterword Returning Home, Remembering Meanings of Freedom 249(14)
Notes 263(12)
Bibliography 275(4)
Index 279(5)
Resources 284(3)
About the Authors 287

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