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States' Gains, Labor's Losses : China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980-2000 /

"In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states. In the late 1970s, leaders around the world faced a need both to continue productive investment and to cut labor costs to compete internationally in a chang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Solinger, Dorothy J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : states' struggle between workers and the world economy
  • Similar starting points : the state for labor, against the world
  • The cul-de-sac in the road of the past : global forces versus states and workers
  • Entering supranational economic organizations : states and global forces against workers
  • Unions and protest : labor against the state and global forces
  • The welfare outcome : states' responses to labor's laments
  • Conclusion.