The Fox in the Henhouse How Privatization

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.

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

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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The Fox in the Henhouse How Privatization Threatens Democracy

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