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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Solinger, Dorothy J. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press 2009.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37985449*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.