Latin American labor studies bibliography (1992).
Author : Center for Labor Research & Studies
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File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Center for Labor Research & Studies
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File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 1991
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Release : 1992
Category : Labor movement
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Author : Paul W. Posner
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1683400569
In recent decades, Latin American countries have sought to modernize their labor market institutions to remain competitive in the face of increasing globalization. This book evaluates the impact of such neoliberal reforms on labor movements and workers’ rights in the region through comparative analyses of labor politics in Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. Using these five key cases, the authors assess the capacity of workers and working-class organizations to advance their demands and bring about a more just distribution of economic gains in an era in which capital has reasserted its power on a global scale. In particular, their findings challenge the purported benefits of labor market flexibility—the freedom of employers to adjust their workforces as needed—which has been touted as a way to reduce income inequality and unemployment. In-depth case studies show how flexibilization as well as privatization, trade liberalization, and economic deregulation have undermined organized labor in all of these countries, leading to the current internal fragmentation of unions and their inability to promote counterreforms or increase collective bargaining. This assessment concludes that even with substantial variation among countries in how reforms have been implemented, most workers in the region have experienced increasing precarity, informal employment, and weaker labor movements. This book provides vital insights into whether these movements have the potential to regain influence and represent working people’s interests effectively in the future.
Author : John D. French
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Labor
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Author : John D. French
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Labor movement
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Industrial relations
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Author : University of Chicago. Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Corporations, American
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Author : Matthew E. Carnes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0804792429
As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change develops a new theoretical framework for understanding labor laws and their change through time, beginning by conceptualizing labor laws as comprehensive systems or "regimes." In this context, Matthew Carnes demonstrates that the reform measures introduced in the 1980s and 1990s have only marginally modified the labor laws from decades earlier. To explain this continuity, he argues that labor law development is constrained by long-term economic conditions and labor market institutions. He points specifically to two key factors—the distribution of worker skill levels and the organizational capacity of workers. Carnes presents cross-national statistical evidence from the eighteen major Latin American economies to show that the theory holds for the decades from the 1980s to the 2000s, a period in which many countries grappled with proposed changes to their labor laws. He then offers theoretically grounded narratives to explain the different labor law configurations and reform paths of Chile, Peru, and Argentina. His findings push for a rethinking of the impact of globalization on labor regulation, as economic and political institutions governing labor have proven to be more resilient than earlier studies have suggested.
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File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Labor movement
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Author : Philip S. Foner
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 1988-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Covers the relationships between labour movements in the United States and in Latin America from the Mexican War of 1846 up to the founding of the Pan-American Federation of Labor in 1918. Deals with the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and with the aid given by US trade unionists and socialists to the Mexican revolutionists.