North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Environmental policy
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Environmental policy
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Author : Norman Caulfield
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252034929
A cogent analysis of North American trade unions' precipitous decline in recent decades
Author : Canada
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Free trade
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This document presents the final draft of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation between the Governments of Canada, the United States and Mexico.
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Free trade
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File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1995
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File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 1996
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Outlines the major mechanisms which have been utilized by the United States to enforce international labour rights and examines them with regard to their moral, economic and political dimensions. The mechanisms addressed are the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, extraterritorial application of U.S. labour law, voluntary corporate codes of conduct, and the labour side accord to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), known as the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC). Places primary emphasis on the NAALC.
Author : Kevin J. Middlebrook
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231559887
International trade agreements have often been criticized for limited attention to the rights of workers. The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), stands out for linking labor rights provisions to a U.S. trade agreement. Kevin J. Middlebrook provides a comprehensive and systematic examination of the NAALC, assessing its efficacy in protecting workers’ rights over the entire period it was in effect and demonstrating its broader significance for the role of trade and labor standards in U.S. foreign policy. Placing the NAALC in comparative context, Middlebrook considers various ways of promoting workers’ rights and how other U.S. international trade agreements have influenced labor rights abroad. He investigates the origins of the agreement; the political controversies among Canada, Mexico, and the United States over its scope; how the agreement operated in practice; and its longer-term policy legacies. Middlebrook emphasizes the tension between state sovereignty and the international promotion of labor rights in the negotiation and implementation of trade agreements, as well as how labor movements in one partner country can galvanize action in others. Drawing on interviews with high-level officials involved in the trade negotiations and previously unexamined primary sources, The International Defense of Workers is a groundbreaking analysis of the effects of U.S. trade agreements on labor rights.
Author : EE.UU. Department of Labor
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Robert G. Finbow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351146149
Assessing the effectiveness of the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC), this book examines the operation of the core institutions (the Secretariat and National Administrative Offices) over the past seven years. It discusses the main functions of these institutions in hearing public submissions on violations of labour laws and in conducting research and cooperative activities. Based on interview research, the analysis reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the accord to assess its contribution to a common labour relations regime in North America and its impact in creating new transnational communities of actors in government and civil society in the three countries. The NAALC is also compared with the social dimension of the European Union system, and a final assessment is made as to whether the NAALC institutions live up to the promises of their founders and whether these can be a model for labour relations in any future Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement.
Author : Jerry Rosenberg
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
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As the prime force behind trade throughout the Western Hemisphere, the United States is emerging with two trade projects--the newly-signed North American Free Trade Agreement and the projected New American Community. This volume provides a clear, concise guide to all aspects of the 5-volume NAFTA accord, its side agreements, and the unfolding New American Community. It covers specific issues, rationalizations, ideologies, controversies, and recommended actions. With special emphasis on the North American Free Trade Agreement, the volume will provide a major resource for both academics and decision makers in industry and government. Written by a leading authority on U.S. Latin American trade, the volume includes entries, arranged alphabetically, on NAFTA and other trade-related topics. The NAFTA entries are based on the five-volume treaty or official government and nongovernmental publications. Since the New American Community is still emerging, the non-NAFTA entries are interpolations from past trade accords and existing nationwide agreements or ideas based on global concepts and directives, especially the European Union.