The Situation of the Working Class in Latin America
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 72
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Published: 1976
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: June Nash
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1136858679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism. It will be of interest to anthropologists, students of political science and specialists in Latin American studies.
Author: June C. Nash
Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : J. F. Bergin Publishers
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Merike Blofield
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-06-29
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 027106868X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to negotiate household and care work with their male partners. While elite resistance to reform has been widespread, during the past fifteen years a handful of countries have instituted equal rights. In Care Work and Class, Merike Blofield examines how domestic workers’ mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity, mostly linked to left-wing executive and legislative allies, can lead to improved rights even in a region as unequal as Latin America. Blofield also examines the conditions that lead to better enforcement of rights.
Author: Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2012-11-09
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0821397230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in poverty is equal to the size of the middle class. This volume investigates the nature, determinants and possible consequences of this remarkable process of social transformation. We propose an original definition of the middle class, tailor-made for Latin America, centered on the concept of economic security and thus a low probability of falling into poverty. Given our definition of the middle class, there are four, not three, classes in Latin America. Sandwiched between the poor and the middle class there lies a large group of people who appear to make ends meet well enough, but do not enjoy the economic security that would be required for membership of the middle class. We call this group the 'vulnerable'. In an almost mechanical sense, these transformations in Latin America reflect both economic growth and declining inequality in over the period. We adopt a measure of mobility that decomposes the 'gainers' and 'losers' in society by social class of each household. The continent has experienced a large amount of churning over the last 15 years, at least 43% of all Latin Americans changed social classes between the mid 1990s and the end of the 2000s. Despite the upward mobility trend, intergenerational mobility, a better proxy for inequality of opportunity, remains stagnant. Educational achievement and attainment remain to be strongly dependent upon parental education levels. Despite the recent growth in pro-poor programs, the middle class has benefited disproportionally from social security transfers and are increasingly opting out from government services. Central to the region's prospects of continued progress will be its ability to harness the new middle class into a new, more inclusive social contract, where the better-off pay their fair share of taxes, and demand improved public services.
Author: Ioan Davies
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John D. French
Publisher: Comparative and International
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the lives of Latin American women who entered factory labor in increasing numbers in the early part of the 20th century.
Author: Charles L. Davis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780813116709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorically, Latin American political regimes have sought to postpone far-reaching economic reforms and improvements in living standards in order to facilitate the accumulation of private capital. These goals have led to exclusion of the lower classes from the political process altogether or to efforts to control their political mobilization. The ability of governments to maintain such control has often been attributed to the lack of political sophistication by the working class or to the distribution of benefits through patron-client networks designed to preserve the hegemony of ruling parti.
Author: Alison MacEwen Scott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005-08-04
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1134978154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditionally, class analysis has exaggerated the role of economic differentiation, particularly that of the informal economy, and has underestimated the degree of common consciousness amongst the `labouring class'. In Divisions and Solidarities, Alison MacEwen Scott examines class analysis and the inter-relationship between gender and class which creates a shared interest between men and women in some contexts and a divergence of interest in others. Using case studies of the urban population in Latin America, she presents a major critique of existing class theories and presents a new theoretical treatment on class formation, the orthodoxy of the informal economy, class consciousness and political participation.