Free Trade and Transnational Labour

Name: Free Trade and Transnational Labour
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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By: Andreas Bieler (Editor), John Hilary (Editor), Ingemar Lindberg (Editor), Bruno Ciccaglione (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 October 2014 | Edition Number 1

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174 Pages

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Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999. While the WTO Doha negotiations have broken down, the EU and USA are increasingly engaged in bilateral free trade agreements, building on this expanded trade agenda. Free trade strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North, especially in manufacturing, have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, since they often imply deindustrialisation. The purpose of this volume is to understand better these dynamics underlying free trade policy-making. Academics, trade union researchers and social movement activists analyse these issues in detail in order to explore possibilities for transnational labour solidarity. This book was published as a special issue of "Globalizations."

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"[A] remarkable contribution to the debate regarding the role of trade union and transnational
solidarity as a strategy to challenge such agreements...Free Trade and Transnational Labourprovides the basis for action and concrete examples that can be used in a variety of contexts,
supplemented by a number of key theoretical interventions that place those struggles in context." - Global Labour Journal

''... challenges the divide that presupposes diverting strategies for workers' according to their location. Even though more utopian ideas have been put forward in recent years, this final conclusion is a remarkable contribution, and it is also a challenge for labour to rethink itself on the basis of the areas in which it is stronger.'' - Bruno Dobrusin, Global Labour Studies

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