Resumo

GUAMAN HERNANDEZ, Adoración  e  STOESSEL, Soledad. From the Right to Decent Work to the Neoliberal Labor Regime: State Capture and Authoritarianism in Contemporary Ecuador. Rev. latinoam. derecho soc [online]. 2022, n.35, pp.211-238.  Epub 07-Fev-2023. ISSN 2448-7899.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24487899e.2022.35.17277.

The aim of this paper is to address the way in which the neoliberal labor regime has been reinstated in Ecuador since 2017, even within a constitutional framework characterized by a prolabor orientation. The hypothesis supported by the text states that the accelerated renewal of the labor regulation model was made possible by the state’s permeability to the agenda of the International Monetary Fund and the economic elites committed to the organization, in addition to the weakness of the popular organizational field to resist this agenda. The article presents the results of a research project that approached the problem in an interdisciplinary way, in an articulation between labor law, the sociology of law and political sociology. The research findings show that the process of neoliberal return in the field of labor relations and labor rights went through three stages. The first was characterized by early state capture by economic elites. The second stage opened with the arrival of the IMF in the country and the concomitant implementation of a set of neoliberal measures, and the last stage was inaugurated with the emergence of the pandemic that acted as a catalyst for the final implementation of structural adjustment.

Palavras-chave : Neo-liberal labour regime; labour rights; International Monetary Fund; state capture; Equador.