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Cuban Labour at 50: What About the Workers?
Author(s) -
LUDLAM STEVE
Publication year - 2009
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/j.1470-9856.2009.00312.x
Subject(s) - restructuring , salary , state (computer science) , labour law , industrial relations , political science , key (lock) , economic restructuring , economics , political economy , labour economics , economy , market economy , law , ecology , algorithm , computer science , biology
Cuba is reforming its employment relations as it emerges from the economic crisis and restructuring of the 1990s. Employment relations are one key indicator of the state of Cuba's socialist ambition as it celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Revolution. Several key aspects of recent employment law and salary reform are discussed. It is argued that, within a state‐dominated economy, Cuba's workers and trade unions continue to exercise real influence, both in national policy‐making and in workplaces.