TY - BOOK ID - 80823760 TI - The poor's struggle for political incorporation PY - 2017 SN - 9781316273180 9781107110113 9781107525986 1108506100 1108513557 1108515045 110851653X 1108523986 1316273180 1108518028 1107110114 1107525985 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Social movements KW - Poor KW - Neoliberalism KW - Labor movement KW - Neo-liberalism KW - Liberalism KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Poverty KW - Movements, Social KW - Social history KW - Social psychology KW - History. KW - Political activity KW - Economic conditions KW - Argentina KW - Social policy. KW - Politics and government KW - Economic policy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80823760 AB - This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social movement that mobilized the poor and unemployed people of Argentina to end neoliberalism and to attain incorporation into a more inclusive and equal society. The piquetero (picketer) movement is the largest movement of unemployed people in the world. This movement has transformed Argentine politics to the extent of becoming part of the governing coalition for more than a decade. Rossi argues that the movement has been part of a long-term struggle by the poor for socio-political participation in the polity after having been excluded by authoritarian regimes and neoliberal reforms. He conceptualizes this process as a wave of incorporation, exploring the characteristics of this major redefinition of politics in Latin America. ER -