Journal article
The Labor Judge Unleashed: Rule of Law and Labor Rights in "Neoliberal" Chile
Law & social inquiry, Vol.43(4), pp.1574-1603
10/01/2018
DOI: 10.1111/lsi.12341
Abstract
Hoping to improve labor justice, some Latin American countries have reformed their labor courts without necessarily buttressing working-class power. Class power theories make us skeptical of these state-centric strategies for labor rights. Will the "rule-of-law" reforms work? This article reports ethnographic evidence collected by the author in the Chilean labor courts during 2009-2010, and secondary sources. It compares contemporary labor courts, reformed but in an otherwise "neoliberal" context, with the unreformed labor courts of the "socialist" years (1970-1972) to gauge the efficacy of rule-of-law reforms. Results show that despite the neoliberal context, the labor courts were more responsive to workers' claims than under socialism. Rule of law and procedural rules matter for effective labor rights.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Labor Judge Unleashed: Rule of Law and Labor Rights in "Neoliberal" Chile
- Creators
- César F Rosado Marzán - Illinois Institute of Technology
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Law & social inquiry, Vol.43(4), pp.1574-1603
- DOI
- 10.1111/lsi.12341
- ISSN
- 0897-6546
- eISSN
- 1747-4469
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 30
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9985136716502771
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