<scp>C</scp>anadian Mining and Labor Struggles in <scp>M</scp>exico: The Challenges of Union Organizing

Bocking, Paul

doi:10.1111/wusa.12056

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“…With regard to the effects, environmental laws (such as the General Law on Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection) are weakly enforced or not enforced at all. 96 Other (national) laws that would be implicated include water law (see the discussion below), labour law (which is not properly enforced, so as not to discourage foreign investment), 97 corporate law, land use planning law, and trade law. Of course, there are also international and regional agreements to which Mexico is a party, which would also be relevant.…”

Section: Bridging the Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Guiding Environmental Law’s Transformation into Earth System Law Through the Telecoupling Framework

Toit¹,

Porras²,

Kotzé³

2021

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Insights from Earth system science show us that we are crossing over into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Yet, environmental law has failed to integrate these insights and adopt an Earth system perspective, with the result that environmental law has arguably become incapable of responding to the numerous complex, interconnected, and non-linear challenges of an erratic Earth system in the Anthropocene. Earth system law is proposed as a response and is intended to ‘translate’ Earth system science insights into the legal domain, thereby transforming Holocene environmental law and making it more fit for purpose in the Anthropocene. In order to practically explore how this transformation could take place, reliance is placed on the telecoupling framework, which analyses interconnected or coupled human and natural systems over distances. With reference to the mining activities conducted by Canadian companies in Mexico, the telecoupling framework is revealed as a valuable tool for thinking about environmental law in Earth system terms and enabling one to see a range of deeply intertwined telecoupled issues and considerations that must be taken account of by the law. In turn, this enables one to begin to imagine the types of considerations that should be incorporated into legal responses in order to adequately respond to the socio-ecological challenges of the Anthropocene. Anthropocene, Earth system, Earth system governance, Earth system law, Earth system science, Environmental law, Socio-ecological systems, Telecoupling

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Section: Bridging the Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Guiding Environmental Law’s Transformation into Earth System Law Through the Telecoupling Framework

Toit¹,

Porras²,

Kotzé³

2021

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“…My project also agrees with the authors that Mexico's mining sector experienced expansion during the commodity boom, but will seek to explain how Canadian firms dominated that growth, and what Canadian participation means for Mexico's economic development. Bocking (2013) analysed the formation of unions and labour rights of Mexican miners working for Canadian companies through a case study at La Platosa mine, owned by a Canadian junior company, Excellon Resources. 37 The author points out that the Mexican Secretary of 36 Alicia Puyana and Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, "Mexico´s New Wave of Market Reforms and its Extractive Industries", chapter in forthcoming book (2016).…”

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Canadian Mining and Mexican Economic Development

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This thesis is concerned with how Canadian outward FDI in Mexico's mining sector affects the country's economic development. The paper will make the argument that Mexico's economic development has not benefited extensively from Canadian investment in the mining industry, especially considering the revenues earned by mining firms. Furthermore, the argument will be made that inadequate state institutions in Mexico, rather than a malicious Canadian presence, is the principal reason for this phenomenon. Utilizing new institutional economic theory, this thesis will draw attention to the roles of formal and informal institutions in Mexico and how they have affected the mining sector's potential to foster economic development. It will be argued that institutions largely independent of Canadian influence have most significantly affected the outcome of Canadian mining FDI in Mexico's economic development.

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Canadian Mining and Labor Struggles in Mexico: The Challenges of Union Organizing

Cited by 2 publications

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Guiding Environmental Law’s Transformation into Earth System Law Through the Telecoupling Framework

Guiding Environmental Law’s Transformation into Earth System Law Through the Telecoupling Framework

Canadian Mining and Mexican Economic Development

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