This article analyzes the constitution of dockworkers’ power and its impact on trade union strategy in recent labor disputes in Chile and Colombia. Dockworkers’ strategic location in the economies of both countries would predict a high degree of shop-floor power among both groups. In practice, however, Colombian dock-workers had far less shop-floor power than their Chilean counterparts, as a result of mitigating social and political factors. Consequently, they developed a strategy this study terms human rights unionism, relying on external allies and lawsuits for leverage, rather than shop-floor action. Dockworkers in Chile, by contrast, adopted a strategy termed class struggle unionism, relying on nationally and internationally coordinated shop-floor action. This article therefore proposes an expanded model of workers’ structural power, incorporating the roles of state and society to better account for power differentials and divergent strategic pathways among workers who share a common position in the economic system.

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工人权力、工会战略和国际联系：哥伦比亚和智利的码头工人工会主义

本文分析了智利和哥伦比亚近期劳资纠纷中码头工人权力的构成及其对工会战略的影响。码头工人在两国经济中的战略位置将预示这两个群体之间的车间权力高度。然而，在实践中，由于社会和政治因素的缓和，哥伦比亚码头工人的车间权力远低于智利同行。因此，他们制定了一项本研究称为人权工会主义的战略，依靠外部盟友和诉讼作为杠杆，而不是车间行动。相比之下，智利的码头工人采用了一种称为阶级斗争工会主义的战略，依靠国内和国际协调的车间行动。因此，本文提出了工人结构权力的扩展模型，