States' gains, labor's losses : China, France, and Mexico choose global liaisons, 1980-2000

States' gains, labor's losses : China, France, and Mexico choose global liaisons, 1980-2000 /

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"In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states. In the late 1970s, leaders around the world faced a need both to continue productive investment and to cut labor costs to compete internationally in a chang...

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Main Author: Solinger, Dorothy J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2009
Subjects:
Labor policy > China.
Labor policy > France.
Labor policy > Mexico.
Industrial relations > China.
Industrial relations > France.
Industrial relations > Mexico.
China > Foreign economic relations.
France > Foreign economic relations.
Mexico > Foreign economic relations.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : states' struggle between workers and the world economy
  • Similar starting points : the state for labor, against the world
  • The cul-de-sac in the road of the past : global forces versus states and workers
  • Entering supranational economic organizations : states and global forces against workers
  • Unions and protest : labor against the state and global forces
  • The welfare outcome : states' responses to labor's laments
  • Conclusion.

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