Labour Relations in Development

Alex Fernández Jilberto, Marieke Riethof

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9780415287074
• eBook ISBN: 9781134446421
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

This timely and well-written collection explores the impact of economic reforms in developing and transitional economies across the world. In a first of its kind, this book examines such issues as:* in-depth, cross-regional analysis of the pressures for global integration* labour costs and their determinants: crucial factors in the success of econo

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Labour relations in the era of globalization and neo-liberal reforms
• 2. Labour in the era of globalization
• 3. Political economy of growth in Russia
• 4. Institutionalizing capitalism: changing labour market institutions in Hungary after state socialism
• 5. Continuity in change: social consequences of economic reform in Romania
• 6. Ukraine: changing work conditions in a neo-patrimonial society
• 7. Russia’s regional labour markets: coping with the pressures of globalization
• 8. Labour relations in transition: labour-intensive industries in Macau
• 9. Indonesian labour and the challenges of globalization (1966–2001)
• 10. Institutionalizing labour throughout Argentina’s ‘second great transformation’
• 11. Responses of the Brazilian labour movement to privatization
• 12. Neo-liberalization of industrial relations: the case of Chile
• 13. The condition of labour in the new Cuban economic model
• 14. Union responses to privatization: lessons from the Mexican case
• 15. Structural adjustment and trade unions in Africa: the case of Ghana
• 16. The forces of globalization and labour in Africa: the case of Mali
• 17. Labour and Ghana’s debt burden: the democratization of dependency
• Index