NAFTA and the corporate redesign of North America
In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Band 22, Heft 84, S. 95-116
ISSN: 0094-582X
Free trade is not a popular idea in labor circles these days. Trade liberalization is closely associated with industrial restructuring, job dislocation, and declining real wages, which both underlie and reflect shrinking union size and power. Thus, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has US union members and leaders alike worried about their future. On the other hand, the tendency of the AFL-CIO to dismiss Mexican workers as victimized cheap labor who act as a disincentive to American technological innovation is a serious miscalculation, which makes joint action by US and Mexican workers and their organizations all the more difficult. (Lat Am Perspect/DÜI)
