The Forgotten Link: Labor's Stake in International Economic Cooperation - Hardcover

Edwards, Richard; Garonna, Paolo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847676765 ISBN 13: 9780847676767

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991

Synopsis

In The Forgotten Link two prominent economists on either side of the Atlantic discuss strategies for labor to claim its stake in international economic cooperation.

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Review:

This small, concisely argued book opens up a very large new subject-how labor accommodates to and improves its position in a world of increasingly internationalized trading relationships. Its question: if producing firms can go to the country of greatest advantage, why cannot workers for their part do the same? Here is the case for allowing them to do so, with a searching view of what stands in the way.--John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University

The study, as well as providing a thorough analysis, gives some useful and concrete suggestions. Most importantly of all, it reminds us that the historical experience of the last forty-five years shows that greater labour participation in governance has been associated not only with a period of peace among the major powers but also sustained prosperity for all the social partners. The study is right to conclude that labour should be fully incorporated into the process of international economic co-operation which is so essential to the interdependent world economy of the 1990's.--Jacques Delors, President, Commission of the European Communities

...delightfully concise and well-written.--Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Synopsis:

Workers in the developed countries are facing a new set of world economic relationships, increasingly shaped by the processes of international economic integration. This book addresses a central and increasingly debated topic in economic policy: Where does labour fit in the global economy? and what can labour gain or lose from increasing economic integration? In the United Stated, these issues have stimulated wide debate over immigration law reform trade barriers, compensation for dislocated workers, illegal aliens, local content law, and the economic impact of immigration. European issues include the implications for labour of the Single Market (1991), the ongoing influx from Eastern Europe and visions or nightmares about future labour exchanges, the growing illegal or clandestine immigration into southern Europe, especially Italy, of Africans, and such concerns as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's proposal to give 50,000 visas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0847676765
• ISBN 13: 9780847676767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144