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Article: Mexico's labor movement in transition.
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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The Mexican labor movement has been undergoing a profound transformation in the last ten years, the result of twenty years of neoliberal economic policies and the transformation of the Mexican one-party state. (1) A new independent labor movement has emerged which has not only broken with the old state-controlled labor-relations system, but has also put itself forward as the leader of the social movements, and, at the moment, appears as a real political force that can challenge the government. (2)
In 2004, for example, while the economy remained weak, political parties wallowed in corruption, and conservatives continued to press their reactionary and pro-business ...