Edited by Teri L. Caraway, Maria Lorena Cook, and Stephen Crowley
“Working through the Past is an impressive book that grapples with labor’s varied trajectories across different settings in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. This important volume covers a lot of ground in terms of the wide range of important cases analyzed. Yet there is a high degree of theoretical coherence across the chapters thanks to the common framework for tracking how authoritarian legacies can influence the evolution of labor relations. The result is a major scholarly contribution that can serve as a new baseline for anyone interested in labor politics in non-Western settings.”—Rudra Sil, University of Pennsylvania, author of Managing “Modernity”: Work, Community, and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia
Contributors: Graciela Bensusán, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Xochimilco, Mexico; Teri L. Caraway, University of Minnesota; Adalberto Cardoso, State University of Rio de Janeiro; Ruth Berins Collier, University of California, Berkeley; Maria Lorena Cook, Cornell
University; Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College; Volker Frank, University of North Carolina, Asheville; Mary E. Gallagher, University of Michigan; Marko Grdešić, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Jane Hutchison, Murdoch University, Australia; Yoonkyung Lee, Binghamton University; David Ost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Andrés Schipani, University of California, Berkeley
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.