Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile (Pitt Latin American Series) - Hardcover

Perez Ahumada, Pablo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822947692 ISBN 13: 9780822947691

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024

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During Chile’s shift to neoliberalism, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet passed a swath of probusiness labor legislation. Subsequent labor reforms by democratically elected progressive administrations have sought to shift power back to workers, but this task has proven difficult. In Building Power to Shape Labor Policy, Pablo Pérez Ahumada explains why. Focusing on reforms to collective labor law, Pérez Ahumada argues that analyzing how both workers and employers mobilize power to influence government policies is crucial for understanding labor reform outcomes. He examines the relational character of power to explain how different types of power - structural, institutional, associational - interact with each other, and proposes a relational understanding of power and how it is balanced among competing social classes. While workers and employers both have a hand in shaping labor law, their influence is not equal. Analysis of recent events in Chile reveals how the balance of power and the lingering effects of neoliberalism manifest in labor reform.

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Pablo Perez Ahumada is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chile and adjunct researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies in Chile.

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• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822947692
• ISBN 13: 9780822947691
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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