In: Canadian journal of Latin American and Caribbean studies: Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et carai͏̈bes, Band 28, Heft 55-56, S. 7-9
The article analyzes the debate that took place in Mexico and Argentina regarding the necessary changes to labour legislation, situating its importance in a historical perspective. Insofar as labour legislation was not an obstacle for the de facto flexibilization of labour relations, the governments of these countries resisted pressures to transform the law. The limits to the changes imposed on labour relations were set by the effort to prevent the final undermining of official labour movements that had been politically associated through corporatism with the parties in power during the 1990s.
In: Canadian journal of Latin American and Caribbean studies: Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et carai͏̈bes, Band 24, Heft 48, S. 153-175
The interest in the flexibilization of labour and the resulting challenge to the legal basis of the corporatism of the 'official' labour movement has revealed two critical problems facing neoliberalism in Mexico: the impossibility of developing a corporatist relation between state and labour along with any broad politics of labour inclusion when the state is no longer the guarantor of basic workers' rights, but must continue to control labour's demands; the failure of neoliberalism to generate a viable alternative social consensus based on present patterns of accumulation. This has contributed to the limits facing a range of traditional left positions in the country.