Full Description
This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War. The first section provides a general background about the contemporary history of business corporations and dictatorships in the twentieth century at the international level. The second section comprises chapters that analyze five national cases (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru), as well as a comparative analysis of the banking sector in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay). The third section presents six case studies of large companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Central America. This book is crucial reading because it provides the first comprehensive analysis of a key yet understudied topic in Cold War history in Latin America.
Contents
1. Crime and (No) Punishment: Business Corporations and Dictatorships.- 2. Business and the Military in the Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983): Institutional, Economic, and Repressive Relations.- 3. Building the Dictatorship: Construction Companies and Industrialization in Brazil.- 4. Authoritarian Rule and Economic Groups in Chile: A Case of Winner-Takes-All Politics.- 5. Big Business and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in Uruguay: A Network-Based Story of Policy Infiltration for Self-Preservation.- 6. From Business Associations to Business Groups: Business-Government Relations and Corporate Networks during the Military Dictatorship, Peru 1968-1980.- 7. Banking Southern Cone Dictatorships.- 8. Confronting Labor Power: Ford Motor Argentina and the Dictatorship (1976-1983).- 9. A Typology of the Collaboration between Multinational Corporations, Home Governments, and Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from German Investors in Argentina.- 10. Class Conflict and the Ascent of Globalized Business Groups under Chile's Dictatorship: A Case Study of the Copper Manufacturing Industry.- 11. The Limits of Repression: State-Owned Enterprises, Corruption, Environmental Activism, and the Brazilian Tucuruí Dam (1974-1984).- 12. Business as Usual under a Military Regime? Volkswagen Do Brazil and the Military Dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1980).- 13. Securing the Expansion of Capitalism in Colombia: Canadair and the Military Regime of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1953-1957).- 14. Slippery Alliances in Central America: Multinationals, Dictators, and (under) Development Policies.
