Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Unions' Dilemma: How to Survive Neoliberalism -- Labor Politics and Market Transitions -- 2 A Theory of Union-Government Interactions -- A Partisan Theory of Union-Government Interaction -- Leadership Competition -- Union Competition -- Labor-based Parties, Market Reforms, and Union-Government Interactions -- Research Design: A Multilevel Comparison -- 3 The Populist Past and Its Institutional Legacies -- The Value of Political Alliances -- From Seduction to Engagement -- The Multiparty Democracy and the Venezuelan Union Movement -- The Institutionalized Revolution and the PRI Monopoly of Mexican Labor Unions -- The Legacy of Perón and the Argentine Unions -- The Legacies of the Alliance -- 4 A Tug of War: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Venezuela -- Pérez's Administration (1989-93): The "Great Turnaround" -- The Policy Stimulus: Market Reforms -- Summary -- Leadership Competition and CTV Opposition -- Sector-level Analysis: Introducing Variation within the Same Country -- Summary -- Conclusion and Epilogue -- 5 Divided We Rule: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Mexico -- The Salinas Administration (1988-94): The Neoliberal Revolution -- The Policy Stimulus: Market Reforms -- Union Competition and PRI Monopoly -- Sector-level Analysis: Introducing Variation within the Same Country -- Conclusion -- 6 From Pickets to Prices: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Argentina -- The First Menem Administration (1989-95): From Hyperinflation to Market Reforms -- The Policy Stimulus: Market Reforms -- Summary -- Peronist Identity and Union Cooperation -- Sector-level Analysis: Introducing Variation within the Same Country -- Summary -- Conclusion -- 7 Multilevel Comparison -- The Comparability of the Case Studies.

Comparing National Confederations -- Partisan Loyalties, Leadership Competition, and Union Competition -- Comparing Sector-specific Unions -- Telecommunications -- Electricity -- Oil -- Automobiles -- Education -- National Patterns -- Comparing Multilevel Case Studies -- 8 Labor Competition and Partisan Coalitions -- The Role of Labor on the Bumpy Road to the Market -- Labor-party Alliances Beyond Market Reforms -- Bibliography -- Interviews -- Index.