Abstract
The interest in the flexibilization of labour and the resulting challenge to the legal basis of the corporatism of the ‘official’ labour movement has revealed two critical problems facing neoliberalism in Mexico: the impossibility of developing a corporatist relation between state and labour along with any broad politics of labour inclusion when the state is no longer the guarantor of basic workers' rights, but must continue to control labour's demands; the failure of neoliberalism to generate a viable alternative social consensus based on present patterns of accumulation. This has contributed to the limits facing a range of traditional left positions in the country.
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