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Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the middle of violent raids, was detained and interrogated in a Salvadoran basement prison cell, and survived a bombing in a union cafeteria. This experience as a participant observer informs and enlivens Solidarity Transformed, an illustrative, nuanced, and insightful account of how labor unions in Latin America are developing new strategies to defend the interests of the workers they represent in dynamic global and local contexts. Anner combines in-depth case studies of the auto and apparel industries in El Salvador, Honduras, Brazil, and Argentina with survey analysis. Altogether, he documents approximately seventy labor campaigns-both successful and failed-over a period of twenty years.Anner finds that four labor strategies have dominated labor campaigns in recent years: transnational activist campaigns; transnational labor networks; radical flank mechanisms; and microcorporatist worker-employer pacts. The choice of which strategy to pursue is shaped by the structure of global supply chains, access to the domestic political process, and labor identities. Anner's multifaceted approach is both rich in anecdote and supported by quantitative research. The result is a book in which labor activists find new and creative ways to support their members and protect their organizations in the midst of political change, global restructuring, and economic crises.

Sujets

Employabilité, métiers et formations

Movimiento sindical

América del Sur

Industrial relations

Globalization

South America

Latin America

Trade union

History of the Americas

Central America

SS Central America

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 avril 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780801460579
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Solidarity Transformed

Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America

Mark S. Anner

ILR Press an imprint of Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

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First published 2011 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2011 Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Anner, Mark Sebastian, 1963– Solidarity transformed : labor responses to globalization and crisis in Latin America / Mark S. Anner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780801449598 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 9780801476730 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Labor unions—Latin America. 2. Labor movement—Latin America. 3. Clothing workers—Labor unions—Latin America. 4. Automobile industry workers—Labor unions—Latin America. 5. Solidarity— Latin America. 6. Globalization—Latin America. I. Title. HD6530.5.A796 2011 331.88098—dc22 2010047913

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List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms

1. Introduction

Contents

2. Segmented Production, Fragmented Labor

3. Transnational Activist Campaigns and the AntiSweatshop Movement in El Salvador and Honduras

4. Labor’s Radical Flank Mechanism in Central America

5. Transnational Labor Networks in the Brazilian Auto Industry

6. Microcorporatism in Argentine and Brazilian Auto Plants