Globalization from below: labour internationalism under NAFTA

Carr, Barry

doi:10.1111/1468-2451.00176

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“…It was mostly a ceremonial event: all three countries' legislatures needed to ratify the agreement. Earlier that year, the US held presidential elections, and Democratic candidate Bill Clinton, who was positively inclined towards NAFTA, understood that his own electability, and the passing of NAFTA in Congress, would depend on his ability to secure side agreements on labor and the environment (Nolan García 2011b; Harvey 1996: 1-3;Carr 1999;Graubart 2008: 6). Clinton accordingly campaigned on a promise to labor unions and environmentalists to do something about NAFTA; given that NAFTA itself could not be reopened for amendments (per Mexico's clear stance on this), this meant pursuing additional parallel agreements.…”

Section: Why the Naalc And The Naaec?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

Börzel¹,

Hüllen

Lohaus³

2015

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This groundbreaking monograph series showcases cutting edge research on the transformation of governance in countries with weak state institutions. Combining theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholarship, it challenges the conventional governance discourse, which is biased towards modern developed nation-states. Instead, the series focuses on governance in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, including transnational and transregional dimensions.Located at the intersection of global governance and international relations, on the one hand, and comparative politics, area studies, international law, history, and development studies, on the other, this innovative series helps to challenge fundamental assumptions about governance in the social sciences.

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Section: Why the Naalc And The Naaec?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These were unusual agreements. The NAALC presented the first time that a labor rights agreement was included in a free trade pact (Phelps 2003;Carr 1999). Other free trade areas have followed suit since, including many involving the US, but the NAFTA negotiators can be considered pioneering.…”

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Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

Börzel¹,

Hüllen

Lohaus³

2015

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“…One important case was the solidarity between trade unions in the US, Canada, Mexico and some Central American and Caribbean countries as part of the anti-sweatshop movement that emerged in the 1980s (Armbruster-Sandoval 2005;Coronado and Staudt 2002;Quinteros 2000). Labour alliances prompted by the NAFTA process (Carr 1999;Compa 2001), MERCO-SUR in the Southern Cone Union Coordination (CCSC), the Andean Labour Consultative Council (CCLA) of the Andean Community of Nations, the Central American and Caribbean Union Coordination (CCSCAC) and the Caribbean Congress on Labour (CCL) (ORIT/CIOSL 2006) were also part of this background.…”

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Civil Society and International Governance

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Gilson³

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“…This is not to say that labour NGOs have been completely ignored: there has been an increasing acknowledgement of the role of non-union bodies in labour issues as a result of two powerful catalysts. The first of these was the formation of trade blocs that included both industrialized and developing countries, particularly the North American Free Trade Association, or NAFTA (Carr, 1999). The second was the rise of the anti-globalization movement, culminating with the Seattle protests of 1999 (Levi and Olson, 2000).…”

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Organizing the Unorganizable: Unions, NGOs, and Indonesian Migrant Labour

Ford

2004

International Migration

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There has been little engagement between the organized labour and labour migration literatures. Studies of organized labour movements in Asia have traditionally focused on trade unions that organize workers in factories, in offices, and on the plantations of the countries in which those unions are based, or on international cooperation between such unions. Studies of migrant labour, on the other hand, have tended to emphasize the demographic features of labour migration flows, or the experiences of migrant workers in either their country of origin or their host society. Yet, with the help of local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), migrant workers from countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia are beginning to organize both at home and abroad. This article examines the emergence and operation of both migrant labour NGOs and migrant labour associations from a labour movement perspective. It focuses on the schism between the literature on labour migration, in which descriptions of migrant labour NGOs most often appear, and the literature on organized labour, which has generally ignored both the increasing significance of temporary overseas labour migration and the role of non-union bodies in the organization of labour. Examples from Indonesia and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (herinafter Hong Kong) are used to argue that the experiences of migrant labour NGOs and migrant labour associations should be taken more seriously by trade unions and by the scholars who study them.

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Globalization from below: labour internationalism under NAFTA

Cited by 22 publications

References 3 publications

Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

Civil Society and International Governance

Organizing the Unorganizable: Unions, NGOs, and Indonesian Migrant Labour

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