The contributors to this volume highlight the critical role that authoritarian legacies play in shaping labor politics in new democracies, providing the first cross-regional analysis of the impact of authoritarianism on labor.
Teri L. Caraway is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing, also from Cornell. Maria Lorena Cook is Professor of International and Comparative Labor at the ILR School, Cornell University. She is the author most recently of The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights. Stephen Crowley is Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. He is the author of Hot Coal, Cold Steel: Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations.