Labor unions, partisan coalitions and market reforms in Latin America / Maria Victoria Murillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murillo, Maria Victoria, 1967- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in comparative politics.

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Political activity--Venezuela.

Labor unions.

Labor unions--Political activity--Mexico.

Labor unions--Political activity--Argentina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, & Market Reforms in Latin America

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why do labor unions resist economic restructuring and adjustment policies in some countries and in some economic sectors while they submit in other cases? And why do some labor leaders fashion more creative and effective roles for labor unions? This book addresses these critical questions in an in-depth elegant comparative study of Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela in the 1990s. In each case, the book studies both the role of national confederations as well as individual unions in specific economic sectors in each country. It demonstrates the importance of the presence and nature of alliances between political parties and labor unions as well as the significance of competition between labor unions for the representation of the same set of workers. This work opens new horizons for appreciating the intellectual and practical importance of the variation in the interactions between workers, unions, political parties, and economic policies.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abstract; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; 1 Unions' Dilemma: How to Survive Neoliberalism; 2 A Theory of Union-Government Interactions; 3 The Populist Past and Its Institutional Legacies; 4 A Tug of War: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Venezuela; 5 Divided We Rule: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Mexico; 6 From Pickets to Prices: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Argentina; 7 Multilevel Comparison; 8 Labor Competition and Partisan Coalitions; Bibliography; Interviews; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-235) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12017-9

0-511-05013-5

0-511-17374-1

0-511-15295-7

0-511-61265-6

1-280-43256-X

0-511-30217-7

0-521-78555-3

OCLC:

437063073