Monographs
Building power to shape labor policy: Unions, employer associations, and reform in neoliberal Chile. Pittsburgh, PA: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
Engaging in dialogue with the Power Resources Approach, the book analyzes employer and working-class associational power in order to explain why neoliberal labor legislation is so difficult to reform.
Reviews of this book have been published in journals such as Work, Employment, and Society, ILR Review, The British Journal of Industrial Relations, Global Labour Journal, and Latin American Politics and Society.
Poder de clase y política laboral. Sindicatos, asociaciones empresariales y reforma en Chile. Santiago: UAH Ediciones, 2024
This book is an updated Spanish translation of Building Power to Shape Labor Policy.
Reviews of this edition have appeared in Cuadernos de Economía Crítica and Revista CUHSO.
Edited volumes
Huelgas laborales y revitalización sindical en Chile. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2025.
Edited by P. Pérez Ahumada, F. Gutiérrez, R. Medel, D. Pérez, and D. Velásquez, this book brings together a collection of studies based on data from the Labor Strikes Observatory (OHL/COES-UAH). The chapters examine different dynamics of mobilization in order to assess the extent to which Chilean trade unions have undergone a process of revitalization.
Pablo Pérez Ahumada 