Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ellen Rosskam -- Neoliberalism and education in Latin America: entrenched problems, emerging alternatives / Adam Davidson-Harden and Daniel Schugurensky -- World Bank and the privatization of public education: a Mexican perspective / Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos and John Saxe-Fernández -- Argentina: growth, height, and crisis of teachers' opposition to neoliberal reforms, 1991-2001 / Julián Gindin -- Venezuela: higher education, neoliberalism and socialism / Thomas Muhr and Antoni Verger -- Legacy against possibility: 25 years of neo-liberal policy in Chile / Jill Pinkney Pastrana -- A class perspective on the new actors and their demands from the Turkish education system / Fuat Ercan and Ferda Uzunyayla -- The neo-liberalization of education services (not including higher education): impacts on workers' socio-economic security, access to services, democratic accountability and equity: a case study of Pakistan / Ahmad Mukhtar -- State, inequality and politics of capital: the neoliberal scourge in education / Ravi Kumar -- Global and neoliberal forces at work in education in Burkina Faso: the resistance of education workers / Touorouzou Hervé Somé -- From "abjectivity" to subjectivity: education research and resistance in South Africa / Salim Vally, Enver Motala and Brian Ramadiro -- Mozambique: neocolonialism and the remasculinization of democracy / João M. Paraskeva -- From the state to the market?: China's education at a crossroads / Ka Ho Mok and Yat Wai Lo.