The territorial state which dominated the industrial era is increasingly becoming obsolete, and is gradually being replaced by new forms of global governance (Ohmae, 1995; Strange, 1996, 1998; Rosecrance, 1999). Moreover, the pressure from global markets have blurred the ideological differences among...

A fines de los anos 80, partidos populistas de base laboral, que habian promovido el proteccionismo durante la posguerra, implementaron reformas de mercado en la Argentina, Mexico y Venezuela. En los tres casos dichas reformas afectaban a los sindicatos aliados con los partidos gobernantes de...

Due to economic crises, labor parties followed economic policies that hurt labor unions during the 1990s, such as trade liberalization and privatization. This book explains why labor unions resisted on some occasions, and submitted on others, and the consequences of their actions by studying...