Democratic Institutions of Undemocratic Individuals: Privatizations, Labor, and Democracy in Turkey and Argentina

✍ Scribed by Peride K. Blind

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

After almost three decades of economic adjustment and restructuring, what have been the political consequences of structural reforms? Democratic Institutions of Undemocratic Individuals is a cogent, intriguing and a long-overdue account of the real impact of economic globalization in the developing world. In this essential book, Blind bridges an important gap in the literature attempting to straddle the yawning chasm between those scholars who argue that privatizations are good for democracy and those who maintain that they are not. This book demonstrates the differential impact of privatizations on different sectors of society. It gives a different perspective on the virtues and shortcomings of labor unions in democratization processes, and introduces fascinating comparisons between Kemalist and Peronist templates of nation-building. It yields a judicious process-tracing of Turkish and Argentine labor developments and depicts the groundbreaking interlacing of privatization and democratization in the global era.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
C......Page 10
F......Page 11
M......Page 12
T......Page 13
Y......Page 14
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction: Democratic Institutions of Undemocratic Individuals......Page 22
1 A Recipe for Deciphering Democratization Today: Privatizations and Labor......Page 28
2 History of Labor Developments in Turkey: From State-Dependent to Cautiously Autonomous Unionism......Page 52
3 History of Labor Developments in Argentina: From Peronist to Cautiously Independent Unionism......Page 78
4 Turkish Labor in the Global Era: Autonomous Unions and Transiently Unified Workers......Page 106
5 Argentine Labor in the Global Era: More Plural Unions and Atomized Workers......Page 144
6 Effects of Privatizations on Labor: A Cross-Cultural Comparison and Implications for Democracy......Page 204
Notes......Page 230
Bibliography......Page 246
D......Page 274
K......Page 275
P......Page 276
Y......Page 277