Free Trade and Transnational Labour
About this ebook
Free trade strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North, especially in manufacturing, have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, since they often imply deindustrialisation.
The purpose of this volume is to understand better these dynamics underlying free trade policy-making. Academics, trade union researchers and social movement activists analyse these issues in detail in order to explore possibilities for transnational labour solidarity.
This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
About the author
Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy and Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Bruno Ciccaglione
is the European Co-ordinator of the Seattle to Brussels Network.John Hilary
is the Executive Director of the British NGO War on Want.Ingemar Lindberg
is a former researcher and social policy adviser to the Confederation of Swedish Trade Unions (LO).
