Employee Participation at Plant Level in Mexico: Features and Possibilities

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the characteristics of the industrial relations system in Mexico with the intention to show potential tensions and limitations in reference to the workers’ participation at the workplace. One of the main questions to deal is whether the new forms of individual and direct workers’ participation at the plant level would be an alternative to promote democracy in the workplace and gradually remove the authoritarian and corporate legacies in the Mexican industrial relations system without losing governance. The first part briefly describes the features of the Mexican labor market to show its segmentation. The second part presents the dimensions and characteristics of the system of participation. And third, the typology of participation is illustrated by empirical evidence.