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With a Little Help from my Friends: Partisan Politics, Transnational Alliances, and Labor Rights in Latin America

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With a Little Help from my Friends: Partisan Politics, Transnational Alliances, and Labor Rights in Latin America
Author(s)Murillo, M. Victoria; Schrank, Andrew
AbstractWhy did Latin American governments adopt potentially costly, union-friendly labor reforms in the cost-sensitive 1980s and 1990s? The authors answer the question by exploring the relationship between trade unions and two of their most important allies: labor-backed parties at home and labor rights activists overseas. While labor-backed parties in Latin America have locked in the support of their core constituencies by adopting relatively union-friendly labor laws in an otherwise uncertain political and economic environment, labor rights activists in the United States have demonstrated their support for their Latin American allies by asking the U.S. government to treat the protection of labor rights as the price of access to the U.S. market. The former trajectory is the norm in traditionally labor-mobilizing polities, where industrialization encouraged the growth of labor-backed parties in the postwar era; the latter is more common in more labor-repressive environments, where vulnerable unions tend to look for allies overseas.
IssueNo8
Pages971-999
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceComparative Political Studies
VolumeNo38
PubDateOctober 2005
ISBN_ISSN0010-4140


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