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Shifting Tides of Informal Worker Resistance in Mexico: A Domestic Work‐Construction Contrast
Author(s) -
Tilly Chris,
RojasGarcía Georgina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.13109
Subject(s) - militant , workforce , context (archaeology) , work (physics) , contrast (vision) , labour economics , resistance (ecology) , political science , economic growth , political economy , development economics , sociology , economics , law , geography , politics , engineering , mechanical engineering , ecology , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
Informal workers in Mexico, the majority of the country's workforce, have organised to demand rights, but with varying results. In this article, we contrast recent organising by Mexico's domestic workers and informal construction workers. Household worker movements have succeeded in institutionalising significant new organisations and raising public awareness. Construction workers, despite earlier militant counterexamples, have remained trapped by corporatist structures, and their organising capacity has atrophied. We place these outcomes in the context of the overall decline of labour, suggesting conclusions for the limits and possibilities of contemporary Mexican labour mobilisation.