The politics of telecommunications in Mexico
Subtitle: privatization and state-labour relations, 1982-95
By: Judith Clifton.
Series: St. Antony's series
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Teléfonos de México, S.A; Sindicato de Telefonistas de la República Mexicana; Telephone companies -- Mexico; Privatization -- Mexico; Telephone companies -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Mexico
Description: "Privatization and policies of economic liberalization were hailed by many critics as key factors which would help lead Mexico towards a process of deeper democratization at the beginning of the 1980s. This book challenges that claim. Using original research and empirical data for a major case-study, it demonstrates that privatization generated new resources which were used for personal benefit and also to lubricate existing relationships, in this particular case, that between the state and the union.

It concludes that the cause of democratization was not furthered: indeed old corporalist relations were strengthened, having been oiled by corruption and privilege."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.