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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456716503321

Autore

Anner Mark Sebastian <1963->

Titolo

Solidarity transformed [[electronic resource] ] : labor responses to globalization and crisis in Latin America / / Mark S. Anner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : ILR Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8014-6105-7

0-8014-6057-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Disciplina

331.88098

Soggetti

Labor unions - Latin America

Labor movement - Latin America

Clothing workers - Labor unions - Latin America

Automobile industry workers - Labor unions - Latin America

Solidarity - Latin America

Globalization - Latin America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2011.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Segmented production, fragmented labor -- Transnational activist campaigns and the anti-sweatshop movement in El Salvador and Honduras -- Labor's radical flank mechanism in Central America -- Transnational labor networks in the Brazilian auto industry -- Microcorporatism in Argentine and Brazilian auto plants.

Sommario/riassunto

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.