Out-of-court labor agreements in the mexican labor regulatory institutions of the neoliberal period

This paper shows how a legal labor figure, such as the out-of-court labor agreement in Mexico, became the first mechanism of working class restraint and domination by the country’s representatives of federal and local authorities carried out in labor regulatory institutions. Such legal figure, over the years, became an effective mechanism that efficiently suppressed the large number of cases of workers' conflicts generated by the implementation of new management strategies in the companies of 1995-2018 neoliberal Mexico. It also shows how this worker control mechanism became the perfect complement, in labor matters, to neoliberal economic policies implemented by different federal governments (from the mid-1980s until the end of the 1990s), as well as by local governments, to achieve a new type of industrial development based on low wages, open markets and unfair competition due to the absence of freedom of association.