The Limits of Regionalism: NAFTA's Labour Accord by Robert G. Finbow Paperback B

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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.

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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 Biography

Robert Finbow is Associate Professor of Political Science, Canadian Studies and International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. He holds degrees from Dalhousie and York Universities in Canada, and received his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He teaches courses on comparative politics and political economy. He has published articles on labour and environmental aspects of NAFTA, comparative health care and social policy, comparative North American political cultures and Canadian regionalism and federalism. His current research focuses on comparative federalism and regional development policies in North America, multi-level governance, and labour and social policies in NAFTA and Europe.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Part I Balancing Trade and Labour Rights in North America: Introduction: labour, trade and regionalism; Labour rights and trade: from global to regional approaches; NAFTA, labour and the new regionalism; Negotiating the NAALC: political compromise. Part II Public Submissions: Promoting Labour Regionalism?; Testing NAALC's regional institutions: early US cases; Stretching e institutions: later US cases; Institutional limits? Recent US cases; Protecting migrant workers: Mexican cases; Canada's slow accession to the NAALC. Part III NAALC and the Prospects for Regionalism in North America: Cooperative activities: cultivating communality?; Evaluating NAALC: the potential for transnational regionalism; Conclusion: the limits of regionalism in labour affairs. Bibliography; Index.

Details ISBN1138358118 Author Robert G. Finbow Pages 314 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2022 ISBN-10 1138358118 ISBN-13 9781138358119 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-01-31 NZ Release Date 2022-01-31 Publication Date 2022-01-31 UK Release Date 2022-01-31 Subtitle NAFTA's Labour Accord Alternative 9780815397946 DEWEY 331 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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