Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America

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Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin The usa and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the course of violent raids, was once 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 The usa 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 up to date 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, get admission to to the domestic political process, and labor identities. Anner’s multifaceted approach is both wealthy in anecdote and supported by quantitative research. The result is a book in which labor activists find new and creative how one can give a boost to their members and give protection to their organizations in the middle of political change, global restructuring, and economic crises.

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