Recent Studies on Organized Labor and the Working Class in Latin America (1991)
Author : Hobart A. Spalding
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Labor movement
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Author : Hobart A. Spalding
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Labor movement
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Author : Hobart Ames Spalding (Jr.)
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Hobart Spalding
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Charles Bergquist
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
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Author : Philip S. Foner
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,23 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.
Author : Paul W. Posner
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 32,41 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 : Hobart A Spalding
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Page : 297 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Labor and laboring classes
ISBN : 9780061319235
Author : Gerald Greenfield
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 1987-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313228345
An indispensable work for any collection on Latin America, Greenfield and Maram, both professional Latin American historians, have performed a remarkable service for scholars, journalists, students, and the interested lay public. . . . The focus of the individual chapters is on labor organizations, and the information assembled on the various unions, cooperatives, sindicatos, and mutual aid societies is invaluable. . . . The index, itself 98 pages, makes the book even more valuable for the casual or serious researcher. As a resource tool, this volume cannot be too highly recommended. Choice Each chapter concentrates on the history of labor organizations of a single nation. Chapters begin with general essays that place the labor movement within the context of a country's historical and socio-political development. Entries on each of the nation's most important labor organizations follow, including discussion of origin, development, and activities. A bibliography containing suggestions for further study completes each chapter. Appendices include information on international labor organizations that have played an important role in Latin America, country-by-country time lines focusing on the development of organized labor, and a select glossary of terms and notable people.
Author : Edward C. Epstein
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Paul W. Drake
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Authoritarianism
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Drake offers a series of extended country studies-on Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina-set against a larger comparative context that includes Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Brazil, all of which experienced similar transitions into and out of authoritarianism.