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Organized Labor's Global Problems and Local Responses

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  • Drake, Paul W.

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From the 1980s to the 2000s around much of the world, organized labor scrambled to adjust to two international regimes, both propelled by the hegemonic United States and its allies: neoliberal economies and neoliberal democracies. The first framework undercut the power of unions by discouraging interference with market mechanisms from either social actors or governments. The second code of conduct hampered labor by prescribing low-intensity democracies with little mass mobilization or socioeconomic redistribution. The second model sustained the first. Thus weakened working-class movements wrestled with the dilemma of being largely unable to use democratic mechanisms to alter prejudicial economic policies.

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  • Drake, Paul W., 2007. "Organized Labor's Global Problems and Local Responses," International Labor and Working-Class History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(1), pages 161-163, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ilawch:v:72:y:2007:i:01:p:161-163_00
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