Reflexions on Latin American labour sociology: contributions to an update of trade union approaches to non-typical work

This article presents a summary of 20th century trade union theory that reflected the dominance of full-time salaried employment within an industrial society organised around the Fordist compromise. The article begins with "classical" theories of trade unionism and postwar theoretical deve...

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Published inLabour capital and society Vol. 44; no. 1; p. 180
Main Author Noiseux, Yanick
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Montréal St Marys University 01.01.2011
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Hispanic people
Labor unions
Mutation
Sociology
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Summary:This article presents a summary of 20th century trade union theory that reflected the dominance of full-time salaried employment within an industrial society organised around the Fordist compromise. The article begins with "classical" theories of trade unionism and postwar theoretical developments, underlining until the mid-1980s, and beyond, the scant attention paid to workers in peripheral labour markets. The transformation of work brought about by the increase in non-standard work and the new situations facing workers required new approaches to labour theorizing and a need for reflections on new modes of action. The article goes on to examine the contribution of the Latin-American sociology of work that had already identified this crucial issue. It ends with a discussion of the challenges facing trade unionism in the current context of advanced capitalism. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0706-1706