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Author: John P. Tuman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1315502844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study looks at union responses to the changes in the Latin American car industry in the last 15 years. It considers the impact of the shift towards export production and regional integration, and the effect of political changes on union reponses.
Author: Craig Arceneaux
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2005-07-14
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0822972808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious book offers a clear and unified framework for understanding political change across Latin America. The impact of U.S. hegemony and the global economic system on the region is widely known, and scholars and advocates alike point to Latin America's vulnerability in the face of external forces. In spite of such foreign pressure, however, individual countries continue to chart their own courses, displaying considerable variation in political and economic life. Looking broadly across the Western Hemisphere, with examples from Brazil, the Southern Cone, the Andes, and Central America, Arceneaux and Pion-Berlin identify general rules that explain how international and domestic politics interact in specific contexts. The detailed, accessible case studies cast new light on such central problems as neoliberal economic reform, democratization, human rights, regional security, environmental degradation, drug trafficking, and immigration. And they consider not only what actors, institutions, and ideas matter in particular political contexts, but when, where, and how they matter. By dividing issues into the domains of "high" and "low" politics, and differentiating between short-term problems and more permanent concerns, they create an innovative typology for analyzing a wide variety of political events and trends.
Author: Rhys Jenkins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1987-06-18
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1349083593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John P. Tuman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-03
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1136547517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines the responses of unions and workers to regional integration and restructuring in the automobile industry in North and Central America. The focus is on the automobile industry in Mexico, which, because of its size and importance, is viewed as a strategic sector of the Mexican economy and was the focal point of talks between the US, Canada and Mexico during negotiations on NAFTA. Focusing on the period from 1980, John P. Tuman examines the changes implemented by firms to promote export production, he explores reasons for the variation in labour responses to restructuring, and he discusses the prospects for cross-border organizing and co-operation among automobile workers in Canada, the US and Mexico.
Author: Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-05-14
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521785556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s.
Author: Rhys Jenkins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1984-06-18
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 134905321X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maria Lorena Cook
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0271045485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah M. Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-11-03
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1139474405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial security institutions have been among the most stable post-war social programs around the world. Increasingly, however, these institutions have undergone profound transformation from public risk-pooling systems to individual market-based designs. Why has this 'privatization' occurred? Why do some governments enact more radical pension privatizations than others? This book provides a theoretical and empirical account of when and to what degree governments privatize national old-age pension systems. Quantitative cross-national analysis simulates the degree of pension privatization around the world and tests competing hypotheses to explain reform outcomes. In addition, comparative analysis of pension reforms in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay evaluate a causal theory of institutional change. The central argument is that pension privatization emerges from political conflict, rather than from exogenous pressures. The argument is developed around three dimensions: the double bind of globalization, contingent path-dependent processes, and the legislative politics of loss imposition.
Author: Tak-Wing Ngo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-12-04
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1134034415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book which undertakes a systematic analysis of rent seeking activities in China. Using case studies from across economics sectors the contributors discuss the occurrence of the phenomenon, what range of activities are related to rent seeking practices and, more importantly, how rent seeking shapes political and economic development.
Author: Stephan Leibfried
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-06-11
Total Pages: 1038
ISBN-13: 0191643262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South. Leading experts in their fields, from Europe and North America, discuss conceptualizations and theories of the state and the transformations of the state in its engagement with a changing international environment as well as with changing domestic economic, social, and political challenges. The Handbook covers different types of states in the Global South (from failed to predatory, rentier and developmental), in different kinds of advanced industrial political economies (corporatist, statist, liberal, import substitution industrialization), and in various post-Communist countries (Russia, China, successor states to the USSR, and Eastern Europe). It also addresses crucial challenges in different areas of state intervention, from security to financial regulation, migration, welfare states, democratization and quality of democracy, ethno-nationalism, and human development. The volume makes a compelling case that far from losing its relevance in the face of globalization, the state remains a key actor in all areas of social and economic life, changing its areas of intervention, its modes of operation, and its structures in adaption to new international and domestic challenges.
