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Employment relations in Latin America

Mark Anner and Katiuscia Galhera1

Introduction

Latin America offers a vibrant example of complex and dynamic employment relations practices in the global economy. The region shares a common legacy of Iberian colonisation, civil law legal systems, state corporatism, commodity export dependency and labour market bifurcation with a very large informal economy. Employment relations practices have also been shaped by dramatic shifts between economic liberalism and protectionism, and authoritarian rule and democracy. All these factors encourage us to re-think dominant frameworks for studying ER in the global economy.

An employment framework for Latin America must also take into consideration contrasts. The ...

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