State, Labor, Capital : Democratizing Class Relations in the Southern Cone
ISBN: 9780822977209
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Pittsburgh Press
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Subjects: Business/ Management; Economics;

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.

Paul A. Buchanan is a former US security analyst and consultant, on leave from the University of Auckland.

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