The university, state, and market the political economy of globalization in the Americas / edited by Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres.
| Other author | Rhoads, Robert A. |
| Other author | Torres, Carlos Alberto. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, Calif, : Stanford University Press, |
| Description | xxxiii, 360 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword, Critical theory, globalization, and higher education : political economy and the cul-de-sac of the postmodernist cultural turn / Raymond A Morrow -- Introduction : globalization and higher education in the Americas / Carlos Alberto Torres and Robert A. Rhoads -- World without war / Noam Chomsky -- University in the 21st century : toward a democratic and emancipatory university reform / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Academic capitalism and the new economy : privatization as shifting the target of public subsidy in higner education / Gary Rhoads and Sheila Slaughter -- Reforming the reforms : transformation and crisis in Latin American and Caribbean universities / Atilio A. Boron -- Globalization and the challenge to national universities in Argentina and Mexico / Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, and Andrea Brewster -- Latin American identities in transition : a diagnosis of Argentine and Brazilian universities / Marcela Mollis -- Brazil's local solutions to global problems / Ken Kempner and Ana Loureiro Jurema -- Mexico's estímulos : faculty compensation based on piecework / Estela Mara Bensimon and Imanol Ordorika -- Graduate student unionization as a postindustrial social movement : identity, ideology, and the contested US academy / Robert A. Rhoads and Gary Rhoades -- Political economy of higher education in the time of global markets : whither the social responsibility of the university? / Daniel Schugurensky -- Global economy, the state, social movements, and the university : concluding remarks and an agenda for action / Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005017982 |
| ISBN | 0804751684 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0804751692 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |