Social Movements and Collective Action in Latin America: Labour and Extractivism

Abstract

This panel explores the roles of actors and institutions in different socio-environmental and socio-economic conflicts in the Southern Cone. The panel examines (1) the causes of social movements against extractivism in Chile; (2) the mobilisation of thousands of marginalised domestic workers and the development of their own trade unions in Brazil; (3) the policymaking of wage policies in Uruguay and Chile.

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The Policymaking of Wage Policies: The Political Economy Patterns in Democracy and the Challenges from Different Minimum Wage and Collective Bargaining Models in Chile and Uruguay	View Paper Details
Business and Human Rights: Social Movements Responses to Extractivism in Chile	View Paper Details
Domestic Workers’ Mobilizations in Brazil and the Struggle for Labour Rights	View Paper Details