Introduction: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies 1
5. 1. Strength amid Weakness: Legacies of Labor in Post-Suharto Indonesia 25
6. 2. Labor’s Political Representation: Divergent Paths in Korea and Taiwan 44
7. 3. Authoritarian Legacies and Labor Weakness in the Philippines 64
8. 4. The Peculiarities of Communism and the Emergence of Weak Unions in Poland 82
9. 5. Exceptionalism and Its Limits: The Legacy of Self-Management in the Former Yugoslavia 103
10. 6. Russia’s Labor Legacy: Making Use of the Past 122
11. 7. State-Corporatist Legacies and Divergent Paths: Argentina and Mexico 142
12. 8. “Your Defensive Fortress”: Workers and Vargas’s Legacies in Brazil 164
13. 9. Living in the Past or Living with the Past? Reflections on Chilean Labor Unions Twenty Years into Democracy 179
14. 10. Transformation without Transition: China’s Maoist Legacies in Comparative Perspective 197
15. Conclusion: The Comparative Analysis of Regime Change and Labor Legacies 217
16. Notes 235
17. Works Cited 247
18. List of Contributors 273
19. Index 277