Victims of the Chilean Miracle - 9780822333098
Un libro in lingua di Winn Peter (EDT) edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2004
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Implemented in the 1970s at the point of the bayonet and in the shadow of the torture chamber, the neoliberal policies of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship reversed many of the gains in wages, benefits, and working conditions that Chile's workers had won during decades of struggle and triggered a severe economic crisis. Later refined and softened, Pinochet's neoliberal model began, finally, to promote economic growth in the mid-1980s, and it was maintained by the center-left governments that followed the restoration of democracy in 1990. Yet, despite significant increases in worker productivity, real wages stagnated, the expected restoration of labor rights faltered, and gaps in income distribution continued to widen. To shed light on this history and these ongoing problems, the contributors look at industries long part of the Chilean economy—including textiles and copper—and industries that have expanded more recently—including fishing, forestry, and agriculture. They not only show how neoliberalism has affected Chile's labor force in general but also how it has damaged the environment and imposed special burdens on women. Painting a sobering picture of the two Chiles—one increasingly rich, the other still mired in poverty—these essays suggest that the Chilean miracle may not be as miraculous as it seems.
Contributors.
Paul Drake
Volker Frank
Thomas Klubock
Rachel Schurman
Joel Stillerman
Heidi Tinsman
Peter Winn
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Victims of the Chilean Miracle
- Sottotitolo: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Winn Peter (EDT)
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '04
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Working class Chile History 20th century Industrial relations Chile History 20th century Neoliberalism Chile History 20th century
- Pagine: 423
- Peso gr: 770
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 165 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0822333090
- EAN-13: 9780822333098