Introduction: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies
by Teri L. Caraway, Stephen Crowley, and Maria Lorena Cook1. Strength amid Weakness: Legacies of Labor in Post-Suharto Indonesia
by Teri L. Caraway2. Labor's Political Representation: Divergent Paths in Korea and Taiwan
by Yoonkyung Lee3. Authoritarian Legacies and Labor Weakness in the Philippines
by Jane Hutchison4. The Peculiarities of Communism and the Emergence of Weak Unions in Poland
by David Ost5. Exceptionalism and Its Limits: The Legacy of Self-Management in the Former Yugoslavia
by Marko Grdesic6. Russia's Labor Legacy: Making Use of the Past
by Stephen Crowley7. State-Corporatist Legacies and Divergent Paths: Argentina and Mexico
by Graciela Bensusán and Maria Lorena Cook8. "Your Defensive Fortress": Workers and Vargas's Legacies in Brazil
by Adalberto Cardoso9. Living in the Past or Living with the Past?: Reflections on Chilean Labor Unions Twenty Years into Democracy
by Volker Frank10. Transformation without Transition: China's Maoist Legacies in Comparative Perspective
by Mary E. GallagherConclusion: The Comparative Analysis of Regime Change and Labor Legacies
by Ruth Berins Collier and Andrés SchipaniNotes
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index

Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their members. In contrast, the contributors to Working through the Past highlight the critical role that authoritarian legacies play in shaping labor politics in new democracies, providing the first cross-regional analysis of the impact of authoritarianism on labor, focusing on East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.

Legacies from the predemocratic era shape labor's present in ways that both limit and enhance organized labor's power in new democracies. Assessing the comparative impact on a variety of outcomes relevant to labor in widely divergent settings, this volume argues that political legacies provide new insights into why labor movements in some countries have confronted the challenges of neoliberal globalization better than others.

Teri L. Caraway is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing, also from Cornell. Maria Lorena Cook is Professor of International and Comparative Labor at the ILR School, Cornell University. She is the author most recently of The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights. Stephen Crowley is Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. He is the author of Hot Coal, Cold Steel: Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations.