Australia and Chile

Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls
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Paul G. Buchanan: University of Auckland
Kate Nicholls: University of Notre Dame

Chapter 2 in Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies, 2003, pp 25-88 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At first glance, the political economies of Australia and Chile appear to be worlds apart. Shaped by their different geographical locations, the liberalisation of regional and global trade regimes has made Chile into a major, though certainly not the biggest, player in the South American market, while Australia, along with New Zealand, uneasily but increasingly looks to strengthen ties with Asian trading partners. In terms of absolute wealth, Australia’s output in 1999 measured in GDP per capita was US$ 24,574 compared to Chile’s US$ 8652.1 In addition, the Commonwealth of Australia has been fortunate enough to have experienced uninterrupted democratic rule since gaining political independence, and its welfare system and patterns of property ownership have permitted a relatively egalitarian social structure to develop. In Chile, on the other hand, wealth has tended to be more clearly concentrated in the hands of a local elite, a process that was intensified during the country’s turn to authoritarianism between 1973 and 1990.

Keywords: Collective Bargaining; Labour Relation; Union Membership; Shop Floor; Labour Movement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403937407_2

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