ABOUT THIS BOOK

For much of the twentieth century, unions played a vital role in shaping political regimes and economic development strategies, particularly in Latin America and Europe. However, their influence has waned as political parties with close ties to unions have adopted neoliberal reforms harmful to the interests of workers.

What do unions do when confronted with this “loyalty dilemma”? Katrina Burgess compares events in three countries to determine the reasons for widely divergent responses on the part of labor leaders to remarkably similar challenges. She argues that the key to understanding why some labor leaders protest and some acquiesce lies essentially in two domains: the relative power of the party and the workers to punish them, and the party's capacity to act autonomously from its own government.

REVIEWS

“Knits together a powerful and elegant argument with wel-documented case studies. . . .The writing is engaging, and succeeds in capturing the complexity and fluidity of the empiracal material while avoiding unnecessary detail.”
---Latin American Politics & Society

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Choosing Sides	000
2. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Party-Union Relations	000
3. Loyalties Under Stress	000
4. Power and Autonomy in Party-Union Relations	000
5. Survival of the Postrevolutionary Alliance in Mexico	000
6. The Socialist Divorce in Spain	000
7. Back from the Brink in Venezuela	000
8. Party-Union Relations in a Liberalizing World	000
List of Acronyms	000
Notes	000
References	000
Index	000
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Labor unions Spain Political activity, Political parties Spain, Spain Politics and government 1975-Spain Economic policy, Labor unions Mexico Political activity, Political parties Mexico, Mexico Politics and government 20th century, Mexico Economic policy, Labor unions Venezuela Political activity, Political parties Venezuela, Venezuela Politics and government 1935-Venezuela Economic policy

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