Add to ORKG"Following an overview of US workers' changing relation to free trade in the postwar era, this article offers a critical review of labor's fight against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Breaking the campaign down into a typology of four major themes around which the struggle focused — fear of job losses, the unfair suppression of labor rights in Mexico, cross-border solidarity, and international labor rights — it explores the efficacy of these approaches in terms of their ability to build toward a transnational agenda for unions in North America. The article argues that, although many new and creative ideas emerged from the struggle, the overall tone and content of the anti-NAFTA campaign failed to construct a usable transna...
During the debate leading to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), a gre...
Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation ...
Labor movements have always found it difficult to reveal and transform the social relations that con...
Recent accounts of transnational activism have examined a variety of social move-ment organizations ...
Focusing on the struggle over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the substantive probl...
Recent accounts of transnational activism have examined a variety of social movement organizations (...
[Excerpt] This paper argues that while the internationalization of the economy has tended to weaken ...
The neoliberal era has undermined worker’s rights and labor’s power at the national level, but has a...
In this article we ask why some unions in Canada and the United States were more actively opposed to...
The consolidation of neo-liberalism since the 1980s has presented several challenges to unions in No...
Contemporary economic globalization, which is driven and regulated primarily by multinational corpor...
he steady consolidation of neo-liberalism since the 1980s has presented several challenges to unions...
[Excerpt] These findings point to both an enormous challenge and a great opportunity for American un...
The international strategies of America in the post cold-war period have the apparent objective that...
This article details the effects that recent North American economic integration has had on public i...
During the debate leading to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), a gre...
Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation ...
Labor movements have always found it difficult to reveal and transform the social relations that con...
Recent accounts of transnational activism have examined a variety of social move-ment organizations ...
Focusing on the struggle over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the substantive probl...
Recent accounts of transnational activism have examined a variety of social movement organizations (...
[Excerpt] This paper argues that while the internationalization of the economy has tended to weaken ...
The neoliberal era has undermined worker’s rights and labor’s power at the national level, but has a...
In this article we ask why some unions in Canada and the United States were more actively opposed to...
The consolidation of neo-liberalism since the 1980s has presented several challenges to unions in No...
Contemporary economic globalization, which is driven and regulated primarily by multinational corpor...
he steady consolidation of neo-liberalism since the 1980s has presented several challenges to unions...
[Excerpt] These findings point to both an enormous challenge and a great opportunity for American un...
The international strategies of America in the post cold-war period have the apparent objective that...
This article details the effects that recent North American economic integration has had on public i...
During the debate leading to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), a gre...
Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation ...
Labor movements have always found it difficult to reveal and transform the social relations that con...