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Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America
Neoliberalism changed the face of Latin America and left average citizens struggling to cope in many ways. Popular sectors were especially hard hit as wages declined and unemployment increased. The backlash to neoliberalism in the form of popular protest and electoral mobilization opened space for leftist governments to emerge. The turn to left governments raised popular expectations for a second wave of incorporation. Although a growing literature has analyzed many aspects of left governments, there is no study of how the redefinition of the organized popular sectors, their allies, and their struggles have reshaped the political arena to include their interests—until now. This volume examines the role played in the second wave of incorporation by political parties, trade unions, and social movements in five cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The cases shed new light on a subject critical to understanding the change in the distribution of political power related to popular sectors and their interests—a key issue in the study of postneoliberalism.
El ADN emprendedor
La marca Mercado Libre se convirtió, en los últimos años, en el faro del liberalismo vernáculo, una suerte de enclave de éxito global en un continente empobrecido. Un sinónimo de progreso primermundista, modernidad, eficacia privada, agilidad, innovación, avance tecnológico ilimitado. Algo así como la "nueva última oportunidad" para que la añorada burguesía schumpeteriana, devenida en unicornios y starts ups pueda finalmente hacer pie en estas latitudes periféricas gracias a la magia de la meritocracia digital. Este libro analiza el "fenómeno Meli" en varias de las múltiples capas de sentido que su protagonismo social actual ha abierto a la discusión. Centralmente, su filosof...
Afrontar lo inesperado
Las múltiples dimensiones de la vida social que se vieron afectadas por la pandemia de COVID-19 obligaron al Estado argentino a desplegarse en varios frentes a la vez. Cuestiones nuevas, que alteraban las prioridades de una agenda estatal fraguada al calor de los acontecimientos, se combinaron con problemas y desigualdades de larga data puestos en evidencia con mayor crudeza. El Estado elaboró una serie de acciones en el escenario de emergencia para reforzar el sistema sanitario, orientar los comportamientos individuales, amortiguar el golpe económico y contener daños; su intervención se consideró en un principio necesaria e inevitable. Los capítulos reunidos en este libro demuestran ...
Handbook of the International Political Economy of the Corporation
Over the past few decades, corporations have been neglected in studies of international political economy (IPE). Seeking to demystify them, what they are, how they behave and their goals and constraints, this Handbook introduces the corporation as a unit of analysis for students of IPE. Providing critical discussion of their global and domestic power, and highlighting the ways in which corporations interact with each other and with their socio-political environment, this Handbook presents a thorough and up-to-date overview of the main debates around the role of corporations in the global political economy.
Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil
This book explores how and why the labor practices of the world’s largest employer, supermarket giant Walmart, were contested by unions and government regulators as it expanded to Latin America starting in the 1990s. With an in-depth case study of Brazil, and a comparative chapter examining Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, this book analyzes the problematic encounter between diffusion of home-office anti-labor practices and evolving national institutional contexts that are quite varied and in some cases enable considerable resistance by unions and/or regulators. Walmart’s “repressive familial” and “anti-union” model is found to generate costs and conflicts that contributed to its unprofitability and ultimate exit from Brazil in 2018. This experience, contrasted with country situations where Walmart’s overall competitive and labor and human resource practices “fit” better with national markets and institutions, underlines the brittle, problematic nature of diffusionist corporate models lacking adaptive capacity to significant cross-national variations across host countries.
Democratización violenta
Leah Anne Carroll analiza las movilizaciones campesinas, obreras y cívicas, la participación electoral de la izquierda y las acciones guerrilleras, así como la reacción violenta de élites, paramilitares y militares contra estos grupos en Urabá, el Caguán y Arauca. Su análisis abarca la era de la apertura política (1984-1992) y aquella en que se recrudecieron el conflicto armado y la violencia y aumentó la participación de actores internacionales (1993-2008). Con base en 86 entrevistas hechas en las tres regiones, además de archivos de distintos tipos, Carroll reconstruye y compara la historia política de cada región.
Escenas Diversas: Drama, Humor y Música
A través de un recorrido sobre prácticas musicales gestadas en diversas localidades iberoamericanas, desde finales del siglo XIX hasta la actualidad, 'Escenas Diversas: Drama, Humor y Música' hace de la diversidad de las escenas musicales, una de sus mayores fortalezas. En esta obra, el concepto de “escena” se convierte en un ámbito discursivo oportuno para construir aproximaciones dinámicas y flexibles sobre el quehacer musical, ya sea del pasado histórico o del accionar reciente. Este volumen constituye un compendio de estudios de caso acontecidos en ciudades de España, Argentina, México, Cuba, Venezuela y Colombia, con el objetivo de contribuir a los debates actuales sobre esc...
80 anos da CLT: passado, presente e futuro das relações de trabalho no Brasil
Ao longo de todos esses anos, além do reconhecimento da dignidade do trabalhador como pessoa humana e cidadão, novos trabalhadores surgiram e as empresas se reinventaram. A sociedade também mudou, exigindo das pessoas esforço permanente para acompanhar a velocidade de tantas transformações. Nesse contexto, cabe ao Direito do Trabalho não perder de vista seu papel histórico de proteção, hoje ressignificado para acolher outros trabalhadores e outras formas de trabalho.
