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Negotiating Mexico's Labour Law Reform: Corporatism, Liberalism and Democratic Opening
Studies in Political Economy
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Negotiating Mexico's Labour Law Reform: Corporatism, Liberalism and Democratic Opening
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MacDonald, Ian Thomas
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From the body to the body politic: Ian Thomas Macdonald writes that much of the literature on neoliberalism and Mexico has concluded that privatization, trade liberalization, and deregulation have caused Mexican workers' living standards to decline, and that labour restructuring has simultaneously undermined the strength of the trade union movement. While liberalization continues apace in most areas of the Mexican economy, labour relations have been complicated by the existence of the Ley Federal de Trabajo, a law which governed industrial relations in the corporatist period and guaranteed modest wage increases for workers in exchange for industrial peace. While neoliberals have sought to reform this law and have been fought by the trade union movement, Macdonald argues that a hybrid neoliberal/corporatist system may emerge in which the coercive institutions of corporatism are maintained while labour's power is undermined.
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Studies in Political Economy
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2010-05-25
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application/pdf
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http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/5749
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Studies in Political Economy; Vol 73 (2004): Governing The Body
1918-7033 0707-8552 |
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eng
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http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/5749/2645
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