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The March 1976 coup that overthrew a turbulent Peronist government in Argentina also ended one of the few experiments with worker control of industry in Latin American history. For nearly three years, the Buenos Aires local of the country's strong light and power workers' union, the Sindicato de Luz y Fuerza, administered the great public utility SEGBA (Servicios Eléctricos del Gran Buenos Aires), provider of electric power for the capital city and much of the province of Buenos Aires. This experiment with worker control was all the more noteworthy because it was not undertaken by the maverick Cordoban local of Luz y Fuerza, led by Agustín Tosco, principal spokesman within the labor movement for socialism. Rather, the initiative was taken by a bastion of traditional Peronist trade unionism led by Juan José Taccone, the implacable foe of Tosco'sclasistapositions.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic serves as an appropriate framework for evaluating various health care reform proposals. The author reviews the general health care needs of persons with HIV, current methods of financing AIDS care, and various models of health care reform. Principles for assuring appropriate care and for assessing reform proposals and their effect on HIV-related care are presented.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Political Economy of Populist Argentina, 1943-1976 -- 2. Industrialists and Bolicheros in the Origins of Peronism -- 3. Peronist Economic and Industrial Policy, 1944-1955 -- 4. Industrial Support for Perón: The Cámara Argentina de Industrias Metalúrgicas -- 5. The Confederación General Económica and the "Organized Community" -- 6. The National Bourgeoisie in Opposition: From the Revolución Libertadora to the Revolución Argentina -- 7. Conflict and Crisis in the Metalworking Industries -- 8. Peronist Economic and Industrial Policies in the 1970s -- 9. The National Bourgeousie in Power: Provincial Dynamics and the Fall of National Capitalism -- Final Reflections -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

The study of twentieth-century Argentine history is undergoing a radical transformation. Both Argentine and U.S. historians of Argentina are recasting the great debates in the historiography by challenging the Buenos Aires-centered focus of most of the existing historical scholarship and offering a new perspective on the country's modern history. Argentina's supposed 'exceptionalism' is being challenged by these historians. The persistence of political clientilism and oligarchic rule, enclave economies and pre-capitalist social relations, the role of traditional institutions such as the Church and family, intense class conflict and working class militancy, all approximate Argentina closer to the Latin American experience than the previous historiography would suggest. This book is a unique collaboration between Argentine and U.S. historians of this 'other Argentina.'

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A review of the literature in the area of intrinsic-extrinsic motivation revealed several experimental and theoretical problems. The current study provided a series of three conditions under which intrinsic motivation was tested, a true control, a directions only condition and a directions
plus reinforcement condition. Both the directions and the directions plus reinforcement groups were observed to have increased their time on the task during the experimental phases, and when extrinsic reinforcement and directions were removed, the subjects in these two conditions maintained
intrinsically motivated behaviors at levels significantly above the levels observed during the baseline phase and significantly higher than the control group. These results were in contrast to those previously reported in the literature. The discussion portion of the paper examined the faulty
logic, and understanding of operant theory implicit in the literature in extrinsic-intrinsic motivation, and provided suggestions for alternative means of supplanting operant theory with more effective, workable theories of behavior.