Maria Cook : Publications
Selected Publications
Books
The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007.
Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
The Politics of Economic Restructuring: State-Society Relations and Regime Change in Mexico (co-editor with Kevin J. Middlebrook and Juan Molinar Horcasitas), U.S.-Mexico Contemporary Perspectives Series no. 7, La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1994.
Regional Integration and Industrial Relations in North America (co-editor with Harry C. Katz), Ithaca: Institute of Collective Bargaining, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1994.
Articles and Chapters (Selected)
"Labor and Human Rights Movements in Latin America: Convergence, Divergence, and Implications for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights," in Alicia Ely Yamin, ed., Derechos económicos, sociales y culturales en América Latina: del invento a la herramienta, México, D.F.: Plaza y Valdés/IDRC, 2006.
"Occupational Rights and New Employment Regimes in Emergent Economies" (with Louise Haagh), Policy Studies, Vol. 26, no.2, 2005, pp. 171-197.
“Unions, Markets, and Democracy in Latin America,” in Julius G. Getman and Ray Marshall, eds., The Future of Labor Unions: Organized Labor in the 21st Century, Austin: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, 2004, pp. 237-254.
“Political Transition and Labor Revitalization in Mexico” (with Graciela Bensusán), in Daniel B. Cornfield and Holly J. McCammon, eds., Labor Revitalization: Global Perspectives and New Initiatives, Vol. 11 Research in the Sociology of Work, Oxford: Elsevier JAI, 2003, pp. 229-267.
“Labor Reform and Dual Transitions in Brazil and the Southern Cone,” Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 44, no. 1, (Spring) 2002, pp. 1-34.
“Toward Flexible Industrial Relations? Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Labor Reform in Latin America,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 37, no. 3, (July) 1998, pp. 311-336.
“Regional Integration and Transnational Politics: Popular Sector Strategies in the NAFTA Era,” in Douglas A. Chalmers, Carlos M. Vilas, Katherine Hite, Scott B. Martin, Kerianne Peister, and Monique Segarra, eds., The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 516-540.