1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809230403321

Autore

Carnes Matthew E. <1970->

Titolo

Continuity despite change : the politics of labor regulation in Latin America / / Matthew E. Carnes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9242-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 238 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Social Science History

Disciplina

344.801

Soggetti

Labor laws and legislation - Latin America

Labor policy - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Continuity Despite Change -- Chapter 1. Explaining Enduring Labor Codes in Developing Countries: Skill Distributions and the Organizational Capacity of Labor -- Chapter 2. Using Multiple Methods to Understand Labor Law Development in Latin America -- Chapter 3. Latin American Labor Laws in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 4. Fragmented Individualism: Professional Labor Regulation in Chile -- Chapter 5. Contradictions, Divisions, and Competition: Encompassing Labor Regulation in Peru -- Chapter 6. Integration and Incorporation: Corporatist Labor Regulation in Argentina -- Conclusion: Politics and Labor Regulation in Latin America -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change develops a new theoretical framework for understanding labor laws and their change through time, beginning by conceptualizing labor laws as comprehensive systems or "regimes." In this context, Matthew Carnes demonstrates that the reform measures introduced in the 1980's and 1990's have only marginally modified the labor laws from decades earlier. To



explain this continuity, he argues that labor law development is constrained by long-term economic conditions and labor market institutions. He points specifically to two key factors—the distribution of worker skill levels and the organizational capacity of workers. Carnes presents cross-national statistical evidence from the eighteen major Latin American economies to show that the theory holds for the decades from the 1980's to the 2000's, a period in which many countries grappled with proposed changes to their labor laws. He then offers theoretically grounded narratives to explain the different labor law configurations and reform paths of Chile, Peru, and Argentina. His findings push for a rethinking of the impact of globalization on labor regulation, as economic and political institutions governing labor have proven to be more resilient than earlier studies have suggested.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956207903321

Titolo

Towards a typology of poetic forms : from language to metrics and beyond / / edited by Jean-Louis Aroui, Andy Arleo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA ; ; Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2009

ISBN

9786612312328

9781282312326

1282312324

9789027289049

9027289042

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 428 p. : ill

Collana

Language faculty and beyond ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

ArouiJean-Louis

ArleoA (Andy)

Disciplina

808.1

Soggetti

Poetics

Versification

Typology (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Proposals for metrical typology / Jean-Louis Aroui -- Part



I: Isochronous metrics. Textsetting as constraint conflict / Bruce Hayes -- Comparing musical textsetting in French and in English songs / François Dell & John Halle -- Bavarian Zwiefache: investigating the interface between rhythm, metrics and song / Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna & Robert Vetterle -- Natural versification in French and German counting-out rhymes / Andreas Dufter & Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna -- Minimal chronometric forms: on the durational metrics of 2-2-stroke groups / Benoît de Cornulier -- Symmetry and children's poetry in sign languages / Marion Blondel & Christopher Miller -- Part II: Prosodic metrics. Pairs and triplets: a theory of metrical verse / Nigel Fabb & Morris Halle -- Generative linguistics and Arabic metrics / Bruno Paoli -- On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse / Donka Minkova -- The Russian Auden and the Russianness of Auden: meaning and form in a translation by Brodsky / Nila Friedberg -- Towards a universal definition of the caesura / Marc Dominicy & Mihai Nasta -- Metrical alignment / Kristin Hanson -- Rephrasing line-end restrictions / Carlos Piera -- Part III: Para-metrical phenomena. Pif paf poof: Ablaut reduplication in children's counting-out rhymes / Andy Arleo -- The phonology of elision and metrical figures in Italian versification / Oreste Floquet -- Part IV: Macrostructural metrics. Convention and parody in the rhyming of Tristan Corbière / Dominique Billy -- The metrics of Sephardic song / José Domínguez Caparrós -- A rule of metrical uniformity in old Hungarian poetry / Iván Horváth -- Metrical structure of the European sonnet / Jean-Louis Aroui.

Sommario/riassunto

Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of "versification". Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation over time and in space, that concerns forms of a great variety and with different statuses (meters, rhymes, stanzas, prescribed forms, syllabification rules, nursery rhymes, slogans, musical textsetting, ablaut reduplication etc.), and that as a cultural manifestation is performed in a variety of ways (sung, chanted, spoken, read) that can have direct consequences on how it is structured. This profusion of forms is thought to correspond, at the level of perception, to a limited number of cognitive mechanisms that allow us to perceive and to represent regularly iterating forms. This volume proposes a relatively coherent overall vision by distinguishing four main families of metrical forms, each clearly independent of the others and amenable to separate typologies.