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Author : Barry Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA written by Barry Carr and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamara Kay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139077705
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (777 download)
Download or read book NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism written by Tamara Kay and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When NAFTA went into effect in 1994, many feared it would intensify animosity among North American unions, lead to the scapegoating of Mexican workers and immigrants, and eclipse any possibility for cross-border labor cooperation. But far from polarizing workers, NAFTA unexpectedly helped stimulate labor transnationalism among key North American unions and erode union policies and discourses rooted in racism. The emergence of labor transnationalism in North America presents compelling political and sociological and puzzles: How did NAFTA, the concrete manifestation of globalization processes in North America, help deepen labor solidarity on the continent? And why did some unions more readily engage in transnational collaboration and embrace internationalism than others? In addition to making the provocative argument that global governance institutions can play a pivotal role in the development of transnational social movements, this book suggests that globalization need not undermine labor movements: collectively, unions can help shape how the rules governing the global economy are made.
Author : Norman Caulfield
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090799
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book NAFTA and Labor in North America written by Norman Caulfield and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As companies increasingly look to the global market for capital, cheaper commodities and labor, and lower production costs, the impact on Mexican and American workers and labor unions is significant. National boundaries and the laws of governments that regulate social relations between laborers and management are less relevant in the era of globalization, rendering ineffective the traditional union strategies of pressuring the state for reform. Focusing especially on the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (the first international labor agreement linked to an international trade agreement), Norman Caulfield notes the waning political influence of trade unions and their disunity and divergence on crucial issues such as labor migration and workers' rights. Comparing the labor movement's fortunes in the 1970s with its current weakened condition, Caulfield notes the parallel decline in the United States' hegemonic influence in an increasingly globalized economy. As a result, organized labor has been transformed from organizations that once pressured management and the state for worker concessions to organizations that now request that workers concede wages, pensions, and health benefits to remain competitive in the global marketplace.
Author : Lewis Levitzki Lorwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Labor and Internationalism written by Lewis Levitzki Lorwin and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Caulfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Mexican Workers and the State written by Norman Caulfield and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost eighty years before the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Ricardo Flores Magón--revolutionary, anarchist, labor organizer and expatriate nationalist--challenged the prevailing social order of both Mexico and the United States. Magón predicted that if Mexican workers failed to organize and shake off the yoke of capitalism, the nation would soon be dominated by foreign economic interests. And American workers, he warned, would find their firms and factories employing low-wage laborers in Mexico. Magón's message: "Mexico for Mexicans." Organized labor, however, would never gain a strong foothold in Mexico. Although the Constitution of 1917 guaranteed the right of workers to organize and strike, government restrictions, a historically unstable economy and meddling by the American interests (including the IWW and the AFL), combined to limit the effectiveness of Mexican unions. "Mexico for Mexicans," or working-class nationalism, was and is little more than rhetoric. In Mexican Workers and the State, historian Norman Caulfield traces the evolution of organized labor from its radical roots during the Mexican Revolution to its present status as a mere pawn in the game of Mexican politics. The implementation of NAFTA in 1993 has been beneficial to some (almost one million low-wage workers are employed in the maquila industries south of the border), but it has also aggravated the question of workers' rights. Outside industries continue to play an unsettling role in the vacillating Mexican economy. Ricardo Flores Magón's 1914 prediction was right. Mexico has become a haven for foreign interests. Material on which Mexican Workers and the State is based has won the Harvey Johnson Award from the Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies.
Author : Jackie Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742519909
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Globalization and Resistance written by Jackie Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smith and Johnston bring together essays that assess the implications of globalization of political mobilization and explore the way that social movement actors are able to affect change in global political processes. Most of the material focuses on how global forces impact particular organizations or campaigns, but two chapters explore the building of transnational networks by environmental and other groups. Specific topics include Irish transnational social movements, the shaping of protected area systems in less developed countries, the anti-dam movement in Brazil, and the U.S.-Central American peace movement." -- BookNews.
Author : Jefferson R. Cowie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Labor and NAFTA written by Jefferson R. Cowie and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin J. Middlebrook
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231559887
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The International Defense of Workers written by Kevin J. Middlebrook and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International trade agreements have often been criticized for limited attention to the rights of workers. The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), stands out for linking labor rights provisions to a U.S. trade agreement. Kevin J. Middlebrook provides a comprehensive and systematic examination of the NAALC, assessing its efficacy in protecting workers’ rights over the entire period it was in effect and demonstrating its broader significance for the role of trade and labor standards in U.S. foreign policy. Placing the NAALC in comparative context, Middlebrook considers various ways of promoting workers’ rights and how other U.S. international trade agreements have influenced labor rights abroad. He investigates the origins of the agreement; the political controversies among Canada, Mexico, and the United States over its scope; how the agreement operated in practice; and its longer-term policy legacies. Middlebrook emphasizes the tension between state sovereignty and the international promotion of labor rights in the negotiation and implementation of trade agreements, as well as how labor movements in one partner country can galvanize action in others. Drawing on interviews with high-level officials involved in the trade negotiations and previously unexamined primary sources, The International Defense of Workers is a groundbreaking analysis of the effects of U.S. trade agreements on labor rights.
Author : Z. Arashiro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230119050
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas written by Z. Arashiro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It examines how the FTAA, an Inter-American policy idea, was incompatible with the predominant ideas and beliefs of Brazilian and American decision makers as to how they could and should conduct their countries' foreign trade policy in the Western Hemisphere.
Author : Jonathan Graubart
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047410
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Legalizing Transnational Activism written by Jonathan Graubart and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the effectiveness of the citizen-petition mechanisms established by North American Free Trade Agreement's parallel labor and environmental accords. Reconceptualizes the changing roles of international law and transnational activism in shaping global and domestic politics"--Provided by publisher.
Author : John D. French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Labor and NAFTA written by John D. French and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the popular protest in Canada, Mexico and USA opposing the trend towards free trade. Looks at the role of trade unions in protecting workers' rights and maintaining adequate standards of working conditions.
Author : Ray M. Tillman
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555878139
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of U.S. Unions written by Ray M. Tillman and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primarily investigates how important the 1995 change in the leadership of the AFL-CIO, the US federation of labor unions, may turn out to be for the course of the labor movement. The 14 essays advocate a socially conscious grassroots democracy as the crux of union reform and resurgence. Labor activists, scholars, and journalists consider such topics as rank-and-file organizers, reform in the Teamsters and United Auto Workers, Justice for Janitors, and cross border alliances. Paper edition (unseen), $22.50. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Dorothy J. Solinger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801462568
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book States' Gains, Labor's Losses written by Dorothy J. Solinger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states. In the late 1970s, leaders around the world faced a need both to continue productive investment and to cut labor costs to compete internationally in a changed world market. To accommodate forces seemingly beyond their control, they often opted to reduce social protections and benefits that citizens had come to expect, in the process recalibrating their established political-economic coalitions. For countries whose governance was built on a coalition between workers and the state, the political conundrum was particularly intense. States' Gains, Labor's Losses concentrates on three countries—China, France, and Mexico—where revolution-inspired political compacts between labor and the state had to be renegotiated. In all three cases, choices to forge a deepened dependence on international capital markets required the ruling parties to fire large numbers of workers and cut social benefits while attempting not to provoke widespread social unrest or even full-scale revolt among their supporters. China, France, and Mexico also shared strong legacies of protectionism and state intervention in the economy, so the decision of each to join a supranational economic organization (France and the EU, China and the GATT/WTO, Mexico and NAFTA) in the hope of alleviating crises of capital shortage involved submission to a new set of liberal economic rules that further compromised their sociopolitical compacts. Examining a fundamental question about the dynamics of globalization and worker protest through an innovative comparative perspective, States' Gains, Labor's Losses emphasizes the growing tensions and new compromises between the working class and their political leaders in the face of intense international economic pressures.
Author : Natalie Goldstein
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109008
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Globalization and Free Trade written by Natalie Goldstein and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines the history of the expansion and globalization of national economies and explains how globalization evolved to its present state.
Author : Andrew C. Holman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000546349
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Scholars, Missionaries, and Counter-Imperialists written by Andrew C. Holman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, the field of Canadian Studies has attracted North American scholars of the highest caliber to examine Canada: its distinctive social makeup, its fascinating colonial and postcolonial history, its intriguing literature, its political structure, and its changing place in the world. Scholars, Missionaries, and Counter-Imperialists: The American Review of Canadian Studies, 1971–2021 traces the birth and growth of that field by reproducing 15 exemplary articles published in the pages of that journal from its establishment until the present day. For five decades, the American Review of Canadian Studies (ARCS) acted as a bellwether for the field, revealing its strengths, projecting new directions and inquiries, and reflecting the changing topics and methods that scholars used to study Canada. This book captures the history of that field in one robust volume. Carefully selected by the co-editors of ARCS, the chapters in this edited volume are prefaced by an introductory essay that assesses the accomplishments of the field and brief chapter introductions that place them into context.
Author : Thomas Olesen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136865004
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Power and Transnational Activism written by Thomas Olesen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering new and critical insights on global activism and power, it features case studies on China and Tibet, HIV/AIDS, climate change, child labour, the WTO, women and the UN, the global public sphere, world social forums and global civil society.
Author : D. Josselin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403900906
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Non-State Actors in World Politics written by D. Josselin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-10-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterised as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. Non-state Actors in World Politics offers analyses of a diverse range of economic, social, legal (and illegal), old and new actors, such as the Catholic Church, trade unions, diasporas, religious movements, transnational corporations and organised crime.
