Working through the Past : : Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Maria Lorena Cook, Teri L. Caraway, Stephen Crowley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bensusán, Graciela,; Caraway, Teri L.,; Cardoso, Adalberto,; Collier, Ruth Berins,; Cook, Maria Lorena,; Crowley, Stephen,; Frank, Volker,; Gallagher, Mary E.,; Grdešić, Marko,; Hutchison, Jane,; Lee, Yoonkyung,; Schipani, Andrés,
• HerausgeberIn: Caraway, Teri L.,; Cook, Maria Lorena,; Crowley, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 16 halftones

Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their members. In contrast, the contributors to Working through the Past highlight the critical role that authoritarian legacies play in shaping labor politics in new democracies, providing the first cross-regional analysis of the impact of authoritarianism on labor, focusing on East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Legacies from the predemocratic era shape labor's present in ways that both limit and enhance organized labor's power in new democracies. Assessing the comparative impact on a variety of outcomes relevant to labor in widely divergent settings, this volume argues that political legacies provide new insights into why labor movements in some countries have confronted the challenges of neoliberal globalization better than others. Contributors: Graciela Bensusán, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico; Teri L. Caraway, University of Minnesota; Adalberto Cardoso, State University of Rio de Janeiro; Ruth Berins Collier, University of California, Berkeley; Maria Lorena Cook, Cornell University; Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College; Volker Frank, University of North Carolina, Asheville; Mary E. Gallagher, University of Michigan; Marko Grdesic, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jane Hutchison, Murdoch University, Australia; Yoonkyung Lee, Binghamton University; David Ost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Andrés Schipani, University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies -- 1. Strength amid Weakness: Legacies of Labor in Post-Suharto Indonesia -- 2. Labor's Political Representation: Divergent Paths in Korea and Taiwan -- 3. Authoritarian Legacies and Labor Weakness in the Philippines -- 4. The Peculiarities of Communism and the Emergence of Weak Unions in Poland -- 5. Exceptionalism and Its Limits: The Legacy of Self-Management in the Former Yugoslavia -- 6. Russia's Labor Legacy: Making Use of the Past -- 7. State-Corporatist Legacies and Divergent Paths: Argentina and Mexico -- 8. "Your Defensive Fortress": Workers and Vargas's Legacies in Brazil -- 9. Living in the Past or Living with the Past? Reflections on Chilean Labor Unions Twenty Years into Democracy -- 10. Transformation without Transition: China's Maoist Legacies in Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion: The Comparative Analysis of Regime Change and Labor Legacies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- List of Contributors -- Index