Industrielle Beziehungen

Globale Gewerkschaften Und Industrielle Beziehungen in Der Global Governance**/Global Unions, Industrial Relations and Global Governance

Against the background of globalization and the erosion of the power of the nation state, a debate in political science is currently taking place which focuses on the notion of global governance, and which considers whether a new framework of international regulation is likely to be established. To date, little importance has been attributed to global trade unions and transnational industrial relations in this debate. Conversely, it has hardly affected research on industrial relations and tra...

Globalization and Class Analysis: Prospects for Labour Movement Influence in Global Governance**/Globalisierung Und Klassenanalyse. Einflußmöglichkeiten Der Arbeiterbewegung in Der Global Governance

World order structures class relations, and vice-versa, so a shift from a world ordered around insular nationally based capitalist systems to a single integrated global production system and market implies a shift from national to global and transnational classes. Capitalist hegemony has been built on capitalist hegemony in individual nation states, involving the incorporation of subordinate actors into national class compromises. These class compromises are now undermined by globalization. C...

Sozialklauseln in Us-Freihandelsabkommen - Ein Wirksames Mittel Internationaler Arbeitsregulierung?**/Social Clauses in Us Free Trade Agreements - an Effective Approach to International Labour Regulation?

This article deals with a specific approach to international labour regulation: social clauses in the free trade agreements of the US. It analyses the history, institutional design, the practice and the regulatory impact of the pilot agreement, the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC), between the US, Canada and Mexico, one of the two NAFTA side agreements. With the NAALC the three governments subscribed to the obligation to promote, enforce and improve social standards with...

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