State, Labor, Capital
Democratizing Class Relations in the Southern Cone
Published on 13. March 2017
416 pages
978-0-8229-7720-9 (ISBN)
Description
Organized labor has played a critical role in political transition away from authoritarianism in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Buchanan views the institutional networks where these new governments strive to maintain democracy, focusing on the role of national labor administrations.This book argues that because democratic capitalist regimes are founded on a state-mediated class compromise, institutionalizing labor relations is a major concern. Institutions that foster equitable labor-management bargaining are at the foundation of workers' acquiescence to bourgeois rule.
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Paul A. Buchanan is a former US security analyst and consultant, on leave from the University of Auckland.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Conceptual Issues
- 1. Class Compromise and Democratic Consolidation in the Southern Cone
- 2. The Political Economy and Institutional Bases of Democratic Class Relations
- 3. Labor Collective Action, Regime Type, Political Incorporation, and the State
- Part II. Labor Administration in the Southern Cone
- 4. National Labor Administration as a State Apparatus
- 5. Argentine Labor Administration Under the Radical Government
- 6. National Labor Administration and Democracy in Post-Authoritarian Brazil
- 7. Uruguayan Labor Administration, 1985-1988
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
