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Chile
Democracy
Deregulation
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Globalization
history
Jean Francois Mayer
Labor and Industrial Relations
Labor legislation reform
Labor market and organization
Labor Politics in Latin America: Democracy and Worker Organization in the Neoliberal Era
Latin America
Latin American History
laws and Legislation
Mexico
Neoliberalism
Paul W. Posner
policy
political ideology
Politics and government
Venezuela
Viviana Patroni
Product details
- ISBN 9781683400455
- Weight: 578g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 2018
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In recent decades, Latin American countries have sought to modernize their labor market institutions to comply with the demands of 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. Showing how flexibilization and other processes have undermined organized labor in all of these countries, these in-depth case studies reveal the current internal fragmentation of unions and their inability to promote counterreforms or to 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.
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. Showing how flexibilization and other processes have undermined organized labor in all of these countries, these in-depth case studies reveal the current internal fragmentation of unions and their inability to promote counterreforms or to 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.
Paul W. Posner, associate professor of political science at Clark University, is the author of State, Market, and Democracy in Chile: The Constraint of Popular Participation.
