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BENSUSAN, Graciela  e  CERDAS-SANDI, Daniel. Dismantling Union Corporatism: Implications for the Power Resources of Workers in Brazil and Mexico. Desacatos [online]. 2021, n.67, pp.156-179.  Epub 26-Maio-2025. ISSN 2448-5144.

The ongoing changes in the corporatist arrangements in Brazil and Mexico since 1950 show how differences in the origins and evolution of institutional designs and alliances, between unions and political parties, influenced the former’s ability to represent workers’ interests. The socio-political and economic contexts and double-transition sequences also influenced the unions when taking advantage of their power resources. Based on this situation, we analyze the labor reforms of 2016-2019, whose common objective was to dismantle the old corporatist arrangements, but while in Mexico the aim is to give autonomy and democratize the unions, in Brazil they want to limit them, imposing individualism into labor relations.

Palavras-chave : trade unionism; institutional change; corporatism; democracy; power resources.

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