Free Trade and Transnational Labour (ISSN)

By: Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg and John Hilary and Bruno Ciccaglione

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 208 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317678649
Related ISBNs:: 9781315772516, 9781317678656, 9781317678632, 9781138932548, 9781138777613, 9780415812696
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/18/24
Copyrighted By:: Taylor & Francis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Andreas Bieler
Edited by:: Bruno Ciccaglione
Edited by:: John Hilary
Edited by:: Ingemar Lindberg