From Militancy to Clientelism

Labor Union Strategies and Membership Trajectories in Contemporary Chile

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2992138
AutoresIndira Palacios-Valladares (0000-0001-9303-9761, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume52
Fascículo2
Páginas73-102
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-2456.2010.00082.x
OpenAlexW1579345137
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas50

For the past 30 years, Chilean unionism has been shrinking. Through a comparison of the membership trajectories of 26 unions in two firms between 1990 and 2004, this article explains why some unions defied this trend and how their success affected overall union density in their firms. It argues that the unions that experienced the most favorable membership outcomes were those that, at key junctures of firm restructuring, earliest or most aggressively established a partnership relationship with management. However, in a context of great labor weakness, these cases of union accommodation took the form of exclusive patron-client exchanges, which exacerbated collective action problems and further eroded union density

Accommodation · Clientelism · Collective bargaining · Economics · General partnership · Geography · Labour economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Union density · Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law