Opening up by cracking down : labor repression and trade liberalization in democratic developing countries /
How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late-twentieth century? Since labor unions opposed free trade, democratic governments often used labor repression to ease the process of trade liberalization. Some democracies brazenly jailed union leaders and used police brutal...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Political economy of institutions and decisions.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Open Democracies: How Labor Repression Facilitates Trade Liberalization
- Trade Liberalization Around the World: Cross-National Quantitative Tests
- Democracy Is Not Enough: Labor Rights and Trade Policy in Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Turkey, and India
- India's Middle Path: Preventive Arrests and General Strikes
- Opening Argentina: Menem's Repression of the CGT
- Conclusion.
