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NAFTA and Labor in North America
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NAFTA and Labor in North America Hardback - 2010

by Norman Caulfield

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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.

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  • Title NAFTA and Labor in North America
  • Author Norman Caulfield
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Publication date 2010-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780252034923 / 0252034929
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Economic
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Canada, Industrial relations - North America
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009009429
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.880

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Citations

  • Choice, 08/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/22/2010, Page 18

About the author

Norman Caulfield is a professor of history at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas; the former acting director of research for the Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation; and the author of Mexican Workers and the State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA.

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