Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America

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.

First volume studying the relationship between big business and the Latin American authoritarian regimes during the Cold War Includes previously unavailable archival sources in different countries in Latin America Shows the different types of relationships between dictatorships and large corporations within the context of country-specific complexities and world-wide trends

Auteur

Victoria Basualdo is Researcher at the Argentine National Scientific Council (CONICET) and at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), and Professor in the Political Economy Master's Degree Program at FLACSO, Argentina. She specializes in contemporary economic and labor history, with special focus on structural changes and the transformations of trade-union organizations in Argentina and Latin America.

Hartmut Berghoff is Director of the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He was the Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington DC (2008-2015) and held various visiting positions at the Center of Advanced Study, Harvard Business School, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, and the Henley Business School. He has worked on the history of consumption, business history, immigration history and the history of modern Germany.

Marcelo Bucheli is Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research focuses on the political economy of multinational corporations in Latin America, theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the relationship between firms and states in a historical perspective, and business groups.

Résumé
"Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America represents not only a praiseworthy collaboration between scholars based in Latin America, the United States, and Europe but also a truly interdisciplinary and richly documented investigative effort to provide new knowledge and, perhaps more importantly, directions and perspectives for future work in the field. ... Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America fulfills its promise to provide an interdisciplinary collective analysis of corporate interests and dictatorships." (Rafael R. Ioris, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 102 (3), 2022)

Contenu

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.