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Continuity despite change : the politics of labor regulation in Latin America

"As the dust settles on nearly three decades of sweeping economic reform in Latin America, one policy area has proven surprisingly resistant to change: labor regulation. Laws governing worker contracts and labor union activity largely continue to reflect economic and political bargains struck nearly a century before. In Continuity Despite Change, Matthew Carnes develops an explanation for these remarkably persistent labor law regimes, as well as for the considerable variation among them. Employing both cross-national statistical evidence from the eighteen major Latin American economies, and historical accounts of labor law development and reform in Chile, Peru, and Argentina, he describes how two factors -- the distribution of workers' skills and the organizational capacity of labor -- have shaped and constrained legal developments. His findings provide an important new perspective on labor's evolving political role in the face of globalization." -- Back cover.

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