| Title: | THE "LABOR ARISTOCRACY THESIS" AND THE POLITICAL QUIESCENCE OF LABOR IN VENEZUELA AND MEXICO; |
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| Authors and Corporations: | |
| In: | Social Science Quarterly, 67, 1986, 2, p. 419-431 |
| published: |
University of Texas Press
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| Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
| Physical Description: | 419-431 |
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| ISSN: |
0038-4941
1540-6237 |
| published in: | Social Science Quarterly |
| Language: | English |
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| Collection: | sid-55-col-jstoras12 JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII Archive |
<p>The "labor aristocracy thesis" attributes the political quiescence of industrial workers in many Third World capitalist nations to their relative economic privilege. Presumably elite status in the work force generates satisfaction with the prevailing sociopolitical order which, in turn, leads to quiescent political behavior. This thesis fails to explain the political quiescence exhibited by a sample of Mexican and Venezuelan workers who were interviewed in 1979-80.</p> |