Grassroots social movements have played a major role in electing new, left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy. Benjamin Dangle here explores the complex ways these movements have worked with, against, and independently of national governments. Using original interviews, lively prose and extensive research, Dangl shows how the resurgence of worker cooperatives and anti-privatisation movements can be applied internationally to combat exploitation.