Confederation of Workers of the Peruvian Revolution (CTRP)
Confederation of Workers of the Peruvian Revolution (CTRP)
The Confederation of Workers of the Peruvian Revolution (Confederación de Trabajadores de la Revolución Peruana, or CTRP) was a blatantly corporatist organization initiated by the military regime in Peru in 1973. This labor institution existed with official government and police support. CTRP leaders and organizers used forceful and corrupt means to control individual unions and dislodge labor leaders of the radical Left and even the Communist Party, which officially supported the military reformists. The military regime attempted to form a political movement based on the CTRP, but this endeavor floundered because workers preferred affiliation to the Communistled General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) after 1975.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Denis Sulmont, Historia del movimiento obrero en el Perú, de 1890 a 1977 (1977).
Alfred Stepan, The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective (1978).
Additional Bibliography
Alexander, Robert Jackson, and Eldon M. Parker. A History of Organized Labor in Peru and Ecuador. Westport: Praeger, 2007.
Cameron, Maxwell A., and Philip Mauceri. The Peruvian Labyrinth: Polity, Society, Economy. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
Cotler, Julio. Política y sociedad en el Perú: Cambios y continuidades. Lima: IEP, 1994.
Alfonso W. Quiroz