Working through the Past Working through the Past, written by Teri L. Caraway, Maria Lorena Cook, Stephen Crowley. Cornell University Press, 2015 276 Pages Price: £ 79.95 ISBN: 978-0-8014-5351-9 Book reviewed by Maximiliano E. Korstanje, CERS, University of Leeds, UK Korstanje M. E (2016) Review Working Through the Past. Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies. Available at http://ried.unizar.es/index.php/revista/pages/view/recension 10. Working through the Past is one of those books which gather 10 interesting chapters authored by different voices that focus on the intersection of authoritarian legacies and worker unions. At some extent, methodologically speaking editors Teri Caraway, Maria Cook and Stephen Crowley discuss to what extent social scientist should speak of “authoritarian legacies“ to signal the institutional labor relation forged during authoritarian regimes that somehow persisted up to date. In democracies, the conflict between workers and businessmen is redeemed by different stages of negotiations in which case the struggle of interests reaches on a dead-lock. In case of strike, the state should intervene to obtain a consensus building. Not only this sum-zero game reinforces democracy but determines the influence of unions in democratic life. In authoritarian legacies things go in the opposite direction. The point is that for many voices, strike even wildcat strike opens the doors for the necessary interaction to foster democracy. Those nations whose rights to strike was frowned, by the orchestration of different instrument, developed democracies of low-quality that led to weaker worker unions (Caraway 2015; Lee 2015). As Caraway puts it, “One of the ironies of Suharto regime´s industrial relations ideology, HIP, was that it encouraged unions to pursue economic unionism but delegitimized the main weapon that workers had for pressuring employers in the workplace-the strike. Referring to the