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Central American Unions in the Era of Globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Henry J. Frundt
Henry J. Frundt*
Affiliation:
Ramapo College of New Jersey
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Globalization has exacerbated the impact of three Northern-driven forces on Central American unions. Transnational firms have restructured or enhanced their levels of subcontracting. Governments, while weakening labor-code implemention, have launched extensive privatization schemes. And international supporters of unions have espoused new priorities and rechanneled funding. Although all three trends have caused major difficulties for unions, this article assesses whether or not their traditional spirit of “social-movement unionism” has been undermined. Based on extensive interviews and primary and secondary data, the study documents union resilience in the banana and maquila sectors despite problematic corporate behavior and market conditions. Stung by state privatizations, unions that fragmented following the Central American Peace Accords have partially regrouped to resist public-health takeovers and labor-code harmonization. Facing losses in Northern funding, unions have painfully adapted to fresh organizing strategies and sensitivity to women's issues, which they found to be fundamental to successful collaboration with corporate campaigns, trade pressure, and NGOs. Despite losses, unions have tapped a broader solidarity in their struggle against the demons of globalization.

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , 2002 , pp. 7 - 53
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Copyright © 2002 by the University of Texas Press

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I thank the anonymous LARR reviewers and Managing Editor Sharon Kellum for their extensive and constructive recommendations and Mark Anner of the Cornell School of Labor Studies for his helpful suggestions. This article was written prior to the tragedy that befell New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.

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