"This volume is one of the first books to consider the impact of tripartism across the developing world. It covers 8 case studies from Afrcia, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, focusing on developments since the 1990s. These studies show that tripartism has the effect of reducing the...

The scramble for 58 million jobs -- Tuke this job and love it -- The making of industrial peace -- Smug nation -- Strains beneath the surface -- White male wanted -- The unraveling -- Going backward -- Living and dying by the numbers -- The betrayal -- The new face of capitalism

List of maps, figures, and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: wealth, wellbeing, and social institutions -- Organized labor and democratic consolidation -- The state and economic development -- Economic reform and labor's response -- Reorganizing industry, disorganizing workers --...