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Nafta and Labor in North America

ISBN-13: 9780252076701
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Norman Caulfield
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Local release date: 13/09/2010
Format: Paperback 264 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Labour economics [KCF]

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Google Preview: 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.; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Labor and Global Capitalism in North America, 1850-1970; 2. The Politics of Mexican Labor and Economic Development in Crisis; 3. Mexican Labor and Workers' Rights under NAFTA and NAALC; 4. Labor Mobility and Workers' Rights in North America; 5. The Crisis of Union-Management Relations in the United States and Canada; 6. The North American Auto Industry: The Apex of Concessionary Bargaining; 7. VEBA Las Vegas! Unions Play Casino Capitalism: Autoworkers Lose; Conclusion; Notes; Index; ''A very important, timely book. This study has monumental and provocative implications that are sure to stir debate among scholars in labor history, industrial relations, and public policy.'' Gregg Andrews, author of Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1924; Google Preview content

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