Thursday, May 8, 2014

Novick 2006




  • Many places in teh world are loking for a new model
    • societies can no longer tolerate the level of exlcusion created by old model (53)
  • Latin America did neoliberalism the fastest and the furthers (55) and it created a big increase in poor across the region (from 75 mil to 200mil between 1980 and 2000) )56)
  • The new model (62)
    • sees work in a new way, as the "giver of citizenship", as the basis for social cohesion, not just a "market matter"
    • an important part of this is the need to reorient the macroencomic situation AND politics, role of the state, simultaneously (63)
  • Model of growth and the role of work: a political economy that favors work
    • new relative price levels have priviileged domestic consumption and employment
    • need to recognize SOCIAL debts from the past, repay them with dignity at work and quality work
    • three levels of action
      • get the businesses that are doing well intenrationally to hire more people (63-4)
      • do a mini-ISI but favor companies that can win over domestic market AND compete internationally (64)
      • use workers and technology together, don't let capital replace workers
    • currently the Ministry of Work is trying to promote a growth style that psuhes employment and a more equal discbursement of salaries to make sure povety and exlclusion don't become the norm (69)
      • two pilars: reform the institutions of work, and the politics aof income
  • instruments of institutional strengthening
    • hope to dismantle some of the regressive labor institutions of the 1990s (70)
    • efforts to increase collective bargaining, create social dialogue
    • increase inspections
    • bette rmployment has allowed owkresr to take teh lucha to their employers
  • Instruments of Income politics
    • minimum wage and other things to improve the income of those with lower salaries, make it anti-cyclical (71)
  • Conclusion
    • the current growth is based on manufacturing and construction, because they create employment (74)
    • but a strong compnent of value added and export-based businesses are neceessary, not just extravitive indutries