Extending Regulation to Protect Vulnerable Workers

Sociologists of labor have long recognized the central role of the state in setting rules for collective bargaining, yet in the past few decades, surprisingly little  attention has been paid to state efforts to reform labor institutions. This paper compares state efforts to reform collective bargaining institutions in several emergent/democratizing countries, exploring the obstacles posed by existing  institutional legacies, and current efforts to extend new protections to vulnerable workers.