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OverviewPrivatization has been on the right-wing agenda for years. Health care, schools, Social Security, public lands, the military, prisons-all are considered fair game. Through stories, analysis, impassioned argument-even song lyrics-Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich show that corporations are, by their very nature, unable to fulfill effectively what have traditionally been the responsibilities of government. They make a powerful case that the market is not the measure of all things, and that a vital public sector is an indispensable component of a healthy democracy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Si Kahn , Elizabeth MinnichPublisher: Berrett-Koehler Imprint: Berrett-Koehler Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.371kg ISBN: 9781576753378ISBN 10: 1576753379 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 16 October 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsForeword by Troy Duster Foreword by Amy Goodman Preface: Who We Are, Why We Care Introduction: A Road Map PART I Public, It’s Ours; Private, It’s Theirs Chapter 1 “Morning in America”? Chapter 2 Drawing the Line: Private Versus Public Goods Chapter 3 Introducing Corporations Chapter 4 Forms of Privatization PART II Privatization at Work A Worst-Case Scenario: For-Profit Private Prisons Chapter 6 Tracking and Backtracking Politicians Chapter 7 Keep the Paying Guests Coming: Filling Up the Prisons Chapter 8 We Love This Problem: Lives for Sale Chapter 9 Don’t Fence Me In: Private Walls and Public Rights Chapter 10 Privatizing Against Equality Chapter 11 Minds for Sale Chapter 12 Privatizing Social Security: A Case Study of Ideology, Strategy, Tactics PART III The Great Divide Chapter 13 The Two Cultures of the Twenty-First Century Chapter 14 Appreciating the Public Sector Chapter 15 A Fable, and a Fabulous True Story Chapter 16 An Offer No Corporation Could Refuse PART IV Freedom, Revolution, Progress Chapter 17 The American Dream—Always at Risk Chapter 18 Differing Visions, Conflicting Values Chapter 19 “Trickling Down” into the 1980s and 1990s Chapter 20 Methods That Affect Our Lives Chapter 21 Resistant Strengths Afterword: Returning Home, Remembering Meanings of Freedom Notes Bibliography Index Resources About the AuthorsReviewsLike this excellent and timely book says, these days the foxes aren't just guarding the henhouse--they're on the inside. Unless we want to be devoured by the corporate foxes, we chickens better get organized. This book is a great place to start. --Jim Hightower, author of the New York Times bestseller Thieves in High Places If you care about your children's education, the quality of the air you breathe and the water you drink, affordable health care or Social Security, you need to read The Fox in the Henhouse.... Kahn and Minnich have given us a blueprint of how to organize now to protect our country and our future. --Jan Schakowsky, U.S. House of Representatives Few books manage to do what The Fox in the Henhouse does. It provides analytic tools for challenging corporate America's sale of democracy, honors legacies of resistance, and moves us to a vision of hope and action challenging the privatization of our lives and dreams. --Chandra Talpade Mohanty, educator and author of Feminism Without Borders Inspiring to read, this book will be of great value to organizers, activists, and citizens of conscience...Nothing less than our democracy is at stake when extremists want to roll back our hard-earned rights. It offers a spirited blueprint for all citizens who care about renewing America's best and most generous traditions. --Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation Like this excellent and timely book says, these days the foxes aren't just guarding the henhouse--they're on the inside. Unless we want to be devoured by the corporate foxes, we chickens better get organized. This book is a great place to start. --Jim Hightower, author of the New York Times bestseller Thieves in High Places If you care about your children's education, the quality of the air you breathe and the water you drink, affordable health care or Social Security, you need to read The Fox in the Henhouse.... Kahn and Minnich have given us a blueprint of how to organize now to protect our country and our future. --Jan Schakowsky, U.S. House of Representatives Few books manage to do what The Fox in the Henhouse does. It provides analytic tools for challenging corporate America's sale of democracy, honors legacies of resistance, and moves us to a vision of hope and action challenging the privatization of our lives and dreams. --Chandra Talpade Mohanty, educator and author of Feminism Without Borders Inspiring to read, this book will be of great value to organizers, activists, and citizens of conscience...Nothing less than our democracy is at stake when extremists want to roll back our hard-earned rights. It offers a spirited blueprint for all citizens who care about renewing America's best and most generous traditions. --Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation Author InformationSi kahn has been organizing against privatization for the past ten years. The nonprofit organization he founded and directs, Grassroots Leadership, works to abolish for-profit private prisons, jails, and detention centers as a step toward establishing a system of justice that is truly just and humane. Si began his social justice career forty years ago with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the student wing of the southern civil rights movement. In the 1970s he worked with the United Mine Workers of America on the Brookside strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, and with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union on the J. P. Stevens campaign. Elizabeth minnich has been thinking, speaking, and writing about privatization, inclusiveness, and excellence in education true to the values of democracy for more than thirty years. She has spoken and consulted at colleges, universities, philanthropic foundations, and academic professional associations throughout the United States and abroad. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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