Labour Movements

Abstract

The cycles of conflicts and struggles and the forms of workers’ collective resistance registered in the last few decades in Latin America reveal the heterogeneous and uneven ways in which the working classes are made and remade. Place-specific socio-political contexts and their effects on employment relations (McGrath-Champ, Herod, and Rannie, 2010), the organizational power of workers within the structure of the labour process and capitalist production (Hyman, 2006; Darlington, 2014), and the role of the state in mediating between different class interests (Panitch and Albo, 2014, Panitch and Chibber 2013) are all factors that highly influence the dynamics of conflict and the emergence of labour movements.