As. Bronstein, SOCIETAL CHANGE AND INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS IN LATIN-AMERICA - TRENDS AND PROSPECTS, International labour review, 134(2), 1995, pp. 163-186
Industrial relations have changed profoundly over the past 20 years in
Latin America. There is greater respect for human rights and freedom
of association. The level of conflict has lessened and efforts at trip
artite consultation are discernible. The overall pattern, however, is
unclear. The author reviews the transformations that have occurred sin
ce the early 1980s: political upheavals, democratization, structural a
djustment, social and institutional changes. He analyses and illustrat
es the latest reforms in labour law and the difficult progress towards
independence for the social partners given the interventionist tradit
ion of the State in industrial relations.