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Continuity Despite Change: The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America

Continuity Despite Change: The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America

Carnes, Matthew E.

Hardcover

Series: Social Science History

General Latin American HistoryGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0804789436
ISBN13: 9780804789431
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Aug 13 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change develops a new theoretical framework for understanding labor laws and their change through time, beginning by conceptualizing labor laws as comprehensive systems or regimes. In this context, Matthew Carnes demonstrates that the reform measures introduced in the 1980s and 1990s have only marginally modified the labor laws from decades earlier. To explain this continuity, he argues that labor law development is constrained by long-term economic conditions and labor market institutions. He points specifically to two key factors--the distribution of worker skill levels and the organizational capacity of workers.

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