Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-263) and index.

Labor systems : social processes and regulatory orders -- Explaining regulatory change -- Reforming labor systems : neoliberalism, reregulation, and social compensation -- Export-oriented industrialization and state-enterprise reform : restructuring employment -- External liberalization of trade and investment -- The deregulatory face of labor reform -- Compromising economic and social agendas -- Political tensions of reform : labor opposition and public disorder -- The reregulatory face of labor reform : institutionalization, social compensation, and developmental augmentation -- Disciplining labor and rebuilding the labor process -- Small enterprises, supplier networks, and industrial parks : creating high-skill developmental labor systems -- Contesting reform : the influence of labor politics.