Abstract

GINDIN, Julián. Sindicalismo docente en México, Brasil y Argentina: una hipótesis explicativa de su estructuración diferenciada. RMIE [online]. 2008, vol.13, n.37, pp.351-375. ISSN 1405-6666.

The differences between Mexican teachers' unions at the elementary and secondary levels and their counterparts in Brazil and Argentina are explained fundamentally by the relations they have established with their respective governments. Only in Mexico-where corporatism as the system of relations among workers, union and state has acquired its fullest expression-has the state established a corporatist relation with teachers. Such a relation has translated into resources and power for the teachers' union, yet has also promoted the autonomy of elite leadership and participation in controlling workers. Thus the corporatist relation is the starting point for understanding the different responses in recent times of each national union to neo-liberal programs of educational reform, as well as their power in the educational system and their relation to the state and their own members.

Keywords : unionism; teaching profession; Argentina; Brazil; Mexico.

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