As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change develops a new theoretical framework for understanding labor laws and their change through time, beginning by conceptualizing labor laws as comprehensive systems or -regimes.- In this context, Matthew Carnes demonstrates that the reform measures introduced in the 1980s and 1990s have only...
As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far les...
