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Canadian Labour Congress
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Central Labour Bodies
CETA Negotiation
CIO
COSATU General Secretary
COSATU Leadership
deindustrialisation impacts
EPA Negotiation
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EU Demand
EU Trade Agreement
EU Trade Commissioner
EU's Desire
EU's Legal Framework
EU’s Desire
EU’s Legal Framework
Food Sovereignty
free trade
FTA Negotiation
FTAA Negotiation
Imperialist Rent
intellectual property rights policy
international labour movement
investor state dispute
labour internationalism
National Policy Space
neo-liberal restructuring
neoliberal globalisation
Northern NGO
policy-making
resistance
trade union strategies
trade unions
Transnational Labour Solidarity
transnational solidarity
transnational solidarity in trade policy
UK Governance
UK Oil
Win Win Game
WTO Doha Negotiation

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415812696
  • Weight: 476g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Oct 2014
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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‘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. Especially the expansion of the free trade agenda into services, public procurement, investment, intellectual property rights as well as investor to state dispute settlement provisions are considered to be problematic.

The purpose of this volume is to understand better these dynamics underlying ‘free trade’ policy-making in order to explore possibilities for transnational labour solidarity. Bringing together labour academics with trade union researchers and social movement activists, this volume moves from conceptual reflections about the impact of ‘free trade’ via the analysis of struggles around free trade agreements to considerations of concrete alternatives.

This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
About
Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Nottingham, UK. Bruno Ciccaglione is an Economist and Trade Activist. John Hilary is Executive Director of War on Want, UK. Ingemar Lindberg is a former Union Researcher with LO, Sweden.