Organized Labor in Latin America
Author: Hobart Spalding
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 318
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert J. Alexander
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-09-23
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0313381836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first scholarly work to focus exclusively on the roles of pan-regional and worldwide labor organizations in the labor movements across the nations of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. With a career that covers over a half century, Robert J. Alexander is perhaps our foremost authority on Latin American history and politics. In International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean: A History, Alexander explores one of the most fascinating and often overlooked aspects of the Latin American labor scene he has so meticulously chronicled: the relationships between labor unions within specific nations, region wide organizations, and organized labor around the world. Alexander has written many of the cornerstone works on labor movements within the nations of Latin America, and this is his first volume to focus on the impact of international unions on Latin American labor issues. Coverage includes the AFL-offshoot Pan American Federation of Labor and the CIA-backed AIFLD; the role of the Russian Union, Profintern; European-based unions like the anti-Communist/anti-Fascist Postal Telegraph and Telephone International; and intraregional organizations like the Confederacion de Trabajadores de America Latina (CTAL)—the first attempt to form a multinational labor organization exclusively for the region.
Author: Paul W. Posner
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1683400569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-05-14
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521785556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s.
Author: Philip S. Foner
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1988-02-28
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Gerald Greenfield
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1987-12-04
Total Pages: 964
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Robert Jackson Alexander
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edward C. Epstein
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Maria Lorena Cook
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0271045485
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