Cornfield and McCammon 2003

Introduction from their edited volume

• they use a union-centered approach that places labor organizations and their actions as the center of a web of constraining and facilitating social reactions (2)
• but they also see three important social relations in revitalization, between unions and 1) workers, 2) employers, and 3) the state (3)
• "the state influences the the amount of political opportunity for the expression of labor actions." (11)
• sees labor as attempting to regain its autonomy from the state in certain parts of the GS (like venezuela and Mexico) (14-16)
• but these are all labor movements themselves pushing away from the state, not teh state pushing labor unions out
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