Continuity Despite Change: The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America

by Matthew E. Carnes

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804789436
• ISBN13: 9780804789431
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"