Labour involvement in national and regional transformation processes: The case of Chile

Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to Anti-Liberal Slogan

“…In this sense, the neoliberal model can be contrasted with its predecessor, the state-led development model, which implied very different political roles for labor, capital, and the state. Thus, many scholars maintain that the implementation of a neoliberal model involves a restructuring of state-society relations (e.g., Kurtz 1999: 414;Riethof 1999Riethof : 1050.…”

Varieties of development: On the plurality of political economies and how to harness it

“…Also, this means that neoliberalism entails a distinct approach to state-society relations, suggesting specific roles for important sectors. For instance, the role of the state is subsidiary in social and labour policy as well as a in economic development (Riethof, 1999). Development is focused on economic growth, and (neoliberal) economic structures are not questioned.…”

Development in Latin America: political economies as a matter of culture

“…This country served basically as a laboratory in which to run modernization and neoliberal experiments carried out by scholars educated at the University of Chicago, promoter or neoliberal ideas and policy, known as the Chicago boys (Kay, 2011). Chile's record shows the role of the state reduced to a subsidiary one in economic development as well as in social and labor policy (Riethof, 1999). Regarding labor, whereas the state was in charge of regulating employer-worker relations as well as training and social security, the market was responsible for employment and wages.…”