Have Workers in Latin America Gained from Liberalization and Regional Integration?

John Weeks

Have Workers in Latin America Gained from Liberalization and Regional Integration?

In: Critical Perspectives on Globalization and Neoliberalism in the Developing Countries

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John Weeks Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS University of London London, WC1H 0XG United Kingdom

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Pages:: 87–114

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004476530_006

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This article examines what has occurred in Latin America’s labor markets as a result of the twin processes of economic liberalization and regional integration. The author argues that the two are closely related, because they both tend to reduce the scope of national policy making. The article begins with a review of labor market conditions in Latin America. Neoliberal ideology predicts that labor market “flexibility” should increase employment, general deregulation should foster growth, and faster growth should lead to higher wages. Weeks’ analysis reveals that to the contrary of neoliberal predictions, the results of neoliberal reforms for labor over the last twenty years have been extremely mixed. He also finds that the integration schemes in the Americas, inspired by neoliberal ideology, have a strong bias against organized labor and favor capital.

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Critical Perspectives on Globalization and Neoliberalism in the Developing Countries

Series: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Volume: 79

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004476530

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2000

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