Title States' gains, labor's losses : China, France, and Mexico choose global liaisons, 1980-2000 / Dorothy J. Solinger

Published Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 245 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary "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 changed world market. To accommodate forces seemingly beyond their control, they often opted to reduce social protections and benefits that citizens had come to expect, in the process recalibrating their established political-economic coalitions. For countries whose governance was built on a coalition between workers and the state, the political conundrum was particularly intense. States' Gains, Labor's Losses concentrates on three countries--China, France, and Mexico--where revolution-inspired political compacts between labor and the state had to be renegotiated. In all three cases, choices to forge a deepened dependence on international capital markets required the ruling parties to fire large numbers of workers and cut social benefits while attempting not to provoke widespread social unrest or even full-scale revolt among their supporters. China, France, and Mexico also shared strong legacies of protectionism and state intervention in the economy, so the decision of each to join a supranational economic organization (France and the EU, China and the GATT/WTO, Mexico and NAFTA) in the hope of alleviating crises of capital shortage involved submission to a new set of liberal economic rules that further compromised their sociopolitical compacts. Examining a fundamental question about the dynamics of globalization and worker protest through an innovative comparative perspective, States' Gains, Labor's Losses emphasizes the growing tensions and new compromises between the working class and their political leaders in the face of intense international economic pressures."--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Labor policy -- China Labor policy -- France Labor policy -- Mexico Industrial relations -- China Industrial relations -- France Industrial relations -- Mexico POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. Industrial relations International economic relations Labor policy Arbeitsbeziehungen Arbeitspolitik Außenwirtschaftspolitik Globalisierung SUBJECT China -- Foreign economic relations France -- Foreign economic relations Mexico -- Foreign economic relations Subject China France Mexico China Frankreich Mexiko Form Electronic book ISBN 9780801462566 0801462568

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