National Labor Administration and Democracy in Argentina


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Report analyzes role, structure, and functions of national labor administration under the democratic regime installed in Argentina in 1983. Findings suggest complexity of issues involved in establishing the structural bases of democratic class compromise after an extended period of authoritarian regression. Keywords: Labor relations; State; Unions; Latin America; South America.




Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina


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In Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the history, consolidation, and socio-political dimensions of Argentina’s empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises), a worker-led company occupation movement that has surged since the turn-of-the-millennium and the country’s neo-liberal crisis.







The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies


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Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished group of scholars, this volume examines this shift by introducing three dimensions of inclusion: official recognition of historically excluded groups, access to policymaking, and resource redistribution. Tracing the movement along these dimensions since the 1990s, the editors argue that the endurance of democratic politics, combined with longstanding social inequalities, create the impetus for inclusionary reforms. Diverse chapters explore how factors such as the role of partisanship and electoral clientelism, constitutional design, state capacity, social protest, populism, commodity rents, international diffusion, and historical legacies encouraged or inhibited inclusionary reform during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Featuring original empirical evidence and a strong theoretical framework, the book considers cross-national variation, delves into the surprising paradoxes of inclusion, and identifies the obstacles hindering further fundamental change.




State, Labor, Capital


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Organized labor has played a critical role in political transition away from authoritarianism in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Buchanan views the institutional networks where these new governments strive to maintain democracy, focusing on the role of national labor administrations.This book argues that because democratic capitalist regimes are founded on a state-mediated class compromise, institutionalizing labor relations is a major concern. Institutions that foster equitable labor-management bargaining are at the foundation of workers' acquiescence to bourgeois rule.




National Labor Administration and Democracy in Brazil, 1985-87


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Report discusses and analyzes the strategies and structure of national labor administration under the democratic regime installed in Brazil in 1985. It divides the government's approach towards labor relations into internal and external facets, then disaggregates the strategic and organizational dimensions inherent in each. Discussion of labor response to these initiatives is included, and an appraisal of the significance of this interaction for democratic consolidation in Brazil is made. Keyword: Democracy.




State, Labor, Capital


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Report offers an extended theoretical and methodological discussion of the logics of collective action and processes by which labor is incorporated into the substantive phases of democratic regime consolidation in the Southern Cone of Latin America. Keywords: South America; Class Compromise; Organized Labor; Argentina; Uruguay; Brazil.







Politicized Enforcement in Argentina


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Amengual investigates how labor and environmental regulations can be enforced by drawing on a study of politics in Argentina.







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