"typical" of labor-management systems either in underdeveloped countries
or in the more limited Latin American area. Perhaps there is no typical
pattern for conducting labor relations in such countries. However, I hope
that this study will provide some insights into the role which employer-
employee relations play in the economic development of underdeveloped
countries.

Since the subject of this book is virtually virgin territory for the re-
searcher, most of the material for the present volume has, of necessity, come
from the interviews and observations of the author during various visits
to Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Latin American scholars, when they have
written about our subject, have tended to be principally concerned with its
legal aspects and not with the problems of day-to-day relations between
workers and employers.

Since labor relations are much more regulated by law in Latin America than in the United States, the author has perforce relied heavily, in the
cases of Brazil and Chile, on the labor codes of those countries--respectively,
the Consolidacão das Leis do Trabalho and the Codigo del Trabajo. How-
ever, in Argentina no such codified body of labor law exists, and the author
has used in place of it Jeronimo Remorino La Nueva Legislación Social
Argentina, published in 1953 by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

To supplement the Labor Code in Chile, as well as for certain general
ideas concerning labor and social law in Latin America, the author has
borrowed heavily from two books by noted Chilean scholars of labor law.
These are Alfredo Gaete Berrios' Derecho del Trabajo ( Santiago, 1943) and
Francisco Walker Linares' Panorama del Derecho Social Chileno ( Santiago,
1947). In the second connection, Alfredo Palacios' El Nuevo Derecho
( Buenos Aires, 1935) is the classic.

Of course, for the general framework and orientation of the present
volume, the author has had frequent reference to two articles which ap-
peared in scholarly journals in 1955. These are "The Labour Problem in
Economic Development" by Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop, Frederick Harbison
, and Charles Myers, which appeared in the International Labour Review in March 1955; and "The Structuring of the Labor Force in Industrial
Society: New Dimensions and New Questions," by Clark Kerr and Abraham Siegel
in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review of January 1955. Al-
though the author obviously has certain quarrels with the point of view
expressed in these articles, they are invaluable for any attempt to place labor
relations in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in the broader world framework.

Numerous other books, pamphlets, and periodicals have been referred

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