The North American Free Trade Agreement: Labor, Industry, and Government Perspectives

by Mario F. Bognanno, Kathryn Ready

Overview

After more than two years of negotiations, in December 1992, the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States signed the North American Free Trade Agreement. During the months leading up to the signing, labor, industry, environment, and religious groups from the three countries actively debated and lobbied their respective trade negotiators to gain support for their particular concerns. Lobbying by these groups continues as policy deliberations shift from treaty negotiations to the submission of enabling legislation and, ultimately in the United States, congressional authorization.

This volume brings together key spokespeople from labor, industry, and government and presents the main arguments for and against the Free Trade Agreement as well as views on the Agreement's impact. The book is intended for policy makers, business managers, labor organizations, environmentalists, academics, students, and others who have an interest in understanding and exploring the issues surrounding the NAFTA debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899308494
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/26/1993
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

MARIO F. BOGNANNO is Professor and Director of the Industrial Relations Center at the University of Minnesota.

KATHRYN J. READY is Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: NAFTA and Its Actors by Kathryn J. Ready and Mario F. Bognanno
Background
NAFTA: Labor, Industry, and Government Perspectives by Kathryn J. Ready
Proceedings
North American Free Trade Agreement's Impact on Labor by Mark Anderson
A Canadian Labor Perspective on a North American Free Trade Agreement by Bruce Campbell
The Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Lessons to Guide the Evolution of NAFTA by William H. Cavitt
Reaction Panel Remarks Made at the Conference on North American Free Trade: Labor, Industry, and Government Policy Perspectives by William H. Cavitt
The Impact of Free Trade on Industry by Calman J. Cohen
Estimating the Impact of the U.S.-Mexican Free Trade Agreement on Industrial Labor by James M. Cypher
The Road to the North American Free Trade Agreement: Laissez-Faire or a Ladder Up? by Jeff Faux and Thea Lee
Impact of the Potential Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Mexico on Collective Bargaining from the Point of View of U.S. Companies by Manfred Fiedler
Free Trade, Globalization, and U.S. Labor: What Are the Long-Run Dynamics? by William C. Gruben
The Impact of Free Trade on the Collective Agreement by Morley Gunderson and Anil Verma
International Unions and Transnational Collective Bargaining by Pharis Harvey
The North American Free Trade Agreement as an Element of U.S. Trade Policy by Robert T. Kudrle
International Competition and the Evolution of a North American Free Trade Area by Robert Z. Lawrence
The Role of Trade in North American Integration by Sunder Magun
International Unions and Transnational Collective Bargaining by Joe Mangone
The North American Free Trade Agreement Negotiations and the Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Revisiting Unfinished Business by Keith Martin
International Unions and Transnational Collective Bargaining by M. E. Nichols
The Impact of NAFTA on Collective Agreements in Canada: Issues and Trends by Claude Rioux
Provisions of Collective Agreements: A Comparison of Selected Portions of Labor Arguments Negotiated in Canada and the United States by Marcus Hart Sandver
The Impact of NAFTA on Labor by Stephen I. Schlossberg
Mutual Labor-Management Concerns to Be Addressed in a North American Free Trade Agenda by Gary Sorensen
Implications for Labor-Management Relations of the Proposed North American Free Trade Agreement by Jeremy Wright
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