ABSTRACT
Social movements stand at the heart of scholarship on the 1960s, but so too do the wars associated with them—Cold, traditional, and national liberation. Much less attention has been paid to the economy, which has received so much political and scholarly attention since the 1970s. To find the economy in the global Sixties, people need to bring the ever-growing literature on the social movements and cultural politics of that decade into conversation with histories of capitalism, of development, and of Third World economic projects. Most works do not totally ignore the economy; rather, they marginalize it as context and condition of possibility for protest more than as a major motivation or preoccupation. It was one possible, but seldom the primary arena of politicization. Political issues not only seemed more pressing than economic ones; they were also less divisive, for countries were situated radically differently in the global economy and faced distinctive challenges.
