Opening Up By Cracking Down

by Adam Dean

How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late-twentieth century? Since labor unions opposed free trade, democratic governments often used labor repression to ease the process of trade liberalization. Some democracies brazenly jailed union leaders and used police brutality to break the strikes that unions launched against such reforms. Others weakened labor union opposition through subtler tactics, such as banning strikes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110874589X
• ISBN13: 9781108745895
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"