by Paul G. Buchanan
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995
eISBN: 978-0-8229-7720-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8229-3910-8 | Paper: 978-0-8229-8579-2
Library of Congress Classification HD8259.S65B83 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.098

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Organized labor has played a critical role in political transition away from authoritarianism in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Buchanan views the institutional networks where these new governments strive to maintain democracy, focusing on the role of national labor administrations.

This book argues that because democratic capitalist regimes are founded on a state-mediated class compromise, institutionalizing labor relations is a major concern. Institutions that foster equitable labor-management bargaining are at the foundation of workers' acquiescence to bourgeois rule.