"Labor policy Latin America." . . "Labor policy / Latin America." . "Arbeitsmarktpolitik." . . "Latin America." . . "Labor policy." . . "LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice" . . . . "Labor laws and legislation." . . "Lateinamerika." . . "Labor laws and legislation Latin America." . . "Labor laws and legislation / 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."@en . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . "Continuity despite change : the politics of labor regulation in Latin America"@en . . . . . . .