Organized Labor In Latin America

Author : Robert J. Alexander,Eldon Parker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798216103813

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International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean by Robert J. Alexander,Eldon Parker Pdf

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 : Hobart Spalding
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951000996128C

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Organized Labor in Latin America by Hobart Spalding Pdf

Author : Robert Jackson Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120527697

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Organized Labor in Latin America by Robert Jackson Alexander Pdf

Author : Paul W. Posner,Viviana Patroni,Jean François Mayer
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683400561

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Labor Politics in Latin America by Paul W. Posner,Viviana Patroni,Jean François Mayer Pdf

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 : Gerald Greenfield,Sheldon L. Maram
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015002864263

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Latin American Labor Organizations by Gerald Greenfield,Sheldon L. Maram Pdf

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 : Edward C. Epstein
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822004825139

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Labor Autonomy and the State in Latin America by Edward C. Epstein Pdf

Author : Maria Lorena Cook
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271045481

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Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America by Maria Lorena Cook Pdf

Author : William Humbert Form,Albert A. Blum
Publisher : Gainesville : University of Florida Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001139172

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Industrial Relations and Social Change in Latin America by William Humbert Form,Albert A. Blum Pdf

Interrelationship between social change and labour relations in Latin America. Chapters by different authors. Annotated bibliography pp. 149-169.

Author : William Skinner Tuohy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025605788

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United States Aid Organized Labor in Latin America by William Skinner Tuohy Pdf

Author : Robert J. Alexander
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313071928

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A History of Organized Labor in Brazil by Robert J. Alexander Pdf

Alexander examines the history of the labor movement in Brazil during its two key phases. First, he looks at the origins and early development of the movement from the last decades of the 19th century until the Revolution of 1930. Then he analyzes the impact of the corporate state structure that President Getulio Vargas imposed on labor during his first tenure in power, and the continuation of that structure during most of the remainder of the century. Until 1930, the trajectory of the labor movement in Brazil was quite similar to what was happening in most of the rest of Latin America. Most of the early labor organizations were mutual-benefit societies rather than trade unions. This began to change in the early 1900s. From the onset, organized labor in Brazil was involved with politics, and organized labor had to deal not only with the opposition of employers, but also with that of successive conservative governments. All this changed with the ascent of Vargas to power in 1930. He sought to win the support of the urban working class, and with the coming of the New State in 1937, the government was deeply involved in the direction of union activities. After 1945, Brazilian labor was once more influenced by a variety of different political currents, and by the 1960s the labor movement began to extend into the rural sector of the economy. The Constitution of 1988 allowed workers to organize without government control and they won the right to strike. By 1990 the Brazilian labor movement had attained the structure and characteristics it would retain into the new century. A major resource for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with Brazilian labor, economic, and political affairs.

Author : Philip S. Foner
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037066951

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U.S. Labor Movement and Latin America by Philip S. Foner Pdf

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 : Ernesto Galarza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Labor
ISBN : UOM:39015012322007

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Labor in Latin America by Ernesto Galarza Pdf

Author : University of Chicago. Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Corporations, American
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173027860092

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United States-Latin American Relations by University of Chicago. Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change Pdf

Author : Robert J. Alexander
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313359033

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A History of Organized Labor in Panama and Central America by Robert J. Alexander Pdf

This volume is a pioneering study of the history of organized labor in the Central American republics. It traces the history in the various countries from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It also discusses why they appeared, what organizational and ideological tendencies characterized the movement in these countries, the role of collective bargaining, the economic influence of organized labor, as well as the relations of the movement in the individual countries with one another and with the broader labor movement outside of the countries involved in this volume.

Author : James Dunkerley,Chris Whitehouse
Publisher : Latin America Bureau (Lab)
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038902263

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Unity is Strength by James Dunkerley,Chris Whitehouse Pdf

Unity is Strength describes the hardships and violence suffered by Latin American workers and exposes the economic and political system which exploits and oppresses them. It also looks at the nature of trade unions and workers' struggles in Latin America and considers the need for effective solidarity by British and European trade unionists.