Pitching for each others' team: the North American Free Trade Agreement and labor transnationalism

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Ozarow, D. 2013. Pitching for each others' team: the North American Free Trade Agreement and labor transnationalism. Labor History. 54 (5), pp. 512-526. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2013.849924
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TitlePitching for each others' team: the North American Free Trade Agreement and labor transnationalism
AuthorsOzarow, D.
Abstract

The North American Free Trade Agreement's side accord – the 1994 North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation – has been portrayed as providing an ineffective, bureaucratic procedure for dealing with labor complaints about infringements of national labor legislation. This paper reviews two decades of experience. It argues that after an initial period of formal activity, which did indeed expose the accord's severe limitations, a new era of intensified international links at grassroots level commenced. Despite its limitations, the accord initiated positive learning processes and intensified exchanges between the trade union movements in the USA, Canada and Mexico.

KeywordsLabour; labor; trade unions; Mexico; United States; Canada; transnational movements; free trade agreements; worker rights
Research GroupEmployment Relations group
PublisherRoutledge
JournalLabor History
ISSN0023-656X
Electronic1469-9702
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Online25 Oct 2013
PrintDec 2013
Publication process dates
Deposited29 Nov 2013
Output statusPublished
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2013.849924
Scopus EID2-s2.0-84890437252
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