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

Klappentext Why labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s. Zusammenfassung Due to economic crises! labor parties followed economic policies that hurt labor unions during the 1990s! such as trade liberalization and privatization. This book explains why labor unions resisted on some occasions! and submitted on others! and the consequences of their actions by studying three countries: Argentina! Mexico! and Venezuela. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Unions' dilemma: how to survive neoliberalism; 2. A theory of union-government interaction; 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 reform in Argentina; 7. Multilevel comparison; 8. Labor competition and partisan coalitions.

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• Authors: Maria Victoria Murillo, Maria Victoria (Yale University Murillo
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.05.2001
• EAN: 9780521785556
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78555-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education