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Organized Labor's Global Problems and Local Responses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2007

Paul W. Drake
Paul W. Drake
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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From the 1980s to the 2000s around much of the world, organized labor scrambled to adjust to two international regimes, both propelled by the hegemonic United States and its allies: neoliberal economies and neoliberal democracies. The first framework undercut the power of unions by discouraging interference with market mechanisms from either social actors or governments. The second code of conduct hampered labor by prescribing low-intensity democracies with little mass mobilization or socioeconomic redistribution. The second model sustained the first. Thus weakened working-class movements wrestled with the dilemma of being largely unable to use democratic mechanisms to alter prejudicial economic policies.

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Research Article
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , Fall 2007 , pp. 161 - 163
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Copyright © The International Labor and Working-Class History Society 2007

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References

Note

1. This commentary draws on Drake, Paul W., Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective (Baltimore, 1996)Google Scholar; “El movimiento oberero en Chile,” Revista de Ciencia Politica 23:2 (2003), 148–158; “The Hegemony of U.S. Economic Doctrines in Latin America,” in Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen, eds., Latin America after Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the 21st Century? (New York, 2006), 26–48; and Hershberg, Eric, “The Crisis of State-Society Relations in the Post-1980s Andes,” in Drake, Paul W. and Hershberg, Eric, eds., State and Society in Conflict: Comparative Perspectives on Andean Crises (Pittsburgh, 2006), 1–40Google Scholar.