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- Title
101 años de control sindical en México (1918-2019). El porqué de los bajos salarios y la desigualdad.
- Authors
CIARAMITARO, FERNANDO; MORALES ÁVILA, RAMÓN
- Abstract
The article "101 years of union control in Mexico (1918-2019). The reason behind low wages and inequality" by María Xelhuantzi López analyzes union control in Mexico over the course of a century. It argues that union and wage control are forms of political control used by the State to maintain hegemony over subordinate classes. It also examines the influence of anarchism in the Mexican labor movement and how the State has used cooptation and repression to control workers. Additionally, it explores the impact of US anti-communist policy on Mexican unions during the Cold War. It highlights the influence of government financial groups and the figure of Antonio Ortiz Mena in decision-making regarding labor policies. It also mentions the creation of the Mexican Council of Businessmen as a response to the influence of communism in Latin America. The emergence of union insurgency and its challenge to "charrismo" (a form of corrupt union leadership) is described, as well as the consequences of employer protection unionism on the working class, the informal economy, and the rise of the lumpenproletariat. It concludes that criminal unionism is linked to drug trafficking and has weakened collective bargaining and independent worker organization in the context of the neoliberal model.
- Subjects
MEXICO; 101 anos de control sindical en Mexico (1918-2019): El porque de los bajos salarios y la desigualdad (Book); INCOME inequality; LOPEZ, Maria Xelhuantzi; INFORMAL sector; LABOR unions; DRUG traffic; LABOR movement; NONFICTION; LABOR union personnel; FORCED labor
- Publication
Signos Históricos, 2022, Vol 24, Issue 48, p544
- ISSN
1665-4420
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.24275/oans4913