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What's Next for Global Labour : Power Dynamics and Industrial Relations Systems in a Hyperglobalized World

2013-01-23T15:58:35Z

A Turbulent Time for Labour Globally

The dismantling of long established collective bargaining arrangements is without precedent and collective bargaining coverage has shrunk across the advanced industrial world to levels not seen since the fifties. Everywhere, fewer workers are bargaining collectively, an institution that once gave workers new power and status (ILO, 2010). Nowadays in France, the UK and the US, private sector union membership has fallen to record lows representing less than ten per cent of the workforce. For Canada, the equivalent number is about fifteen per cent which is trending downwards more slowly than in the US where contracting out and de-industrialization have hollowed out its collective bargaining system leaving it much weakened. In OECD countries union density levels have dropped from a high of sixty per cent of the work force in the 80s to just around thirty per cent (OECD, 2011).The shrinkage, contraction and retreat of labour at the negotiating table appears to be structural and long term with large scale consequences for governments, employees and the employers who have profited from the pro-market environment. Once thought to be off limits, the EU's prized social market has begun to lose ground and state workers' public pensions, previously declared off the table, now are threatened by the global fiscal crisis (Standing, 2012).

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The U.S. Allegations of Improper NAFTA Panel Review in the Softwood Lumber Dispute

2012-07-10T13:17:00Z

Initially contained in Chapter 19 of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA), the dispute settlement mechanism for trade remedies (antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) cases) of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is now more than two decades old. While some scholars point to the relative success of Chapter 19 in providing for speedy reviews of either Canadian or American trade remedy determinations and establishing a relatively predictable trade (…)

- Groupe de recherche sur l'intégration continentale (GRIC) / Notes de recherche, Intégration économique, États-Unis, Canada, English, Accords de libre-échange

The Economic Crisis of 2008-2009 : Governance and Consumer Democracy

2012-04-10T14:06:55Z

Dorval Brunelle The Economic Crisis of 2008-2009 : Governance and Consumer Democracy Norteamérica No. 12, année 6, numéro 2.
Voyez en ligne : http://www.cisan.unam.mx/Norteamerica/12.php

- Intégration et régionalisme / Amérique du Nord, English, Español, Chroniques

Daddy leave, the Québec miracle

2012-03-08T13:13:00Z

Pour la journée des femmes, le 8 mars, la revue italienne InGenere, (sous-titre de la revue en ligne : femmes et hommes pour une société qui change : idées, chiffres, politiques…) publie un article de Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, sur le congé de paternité québécois , l'article ayant été traduit par Marco Alberio, post-doctorant à l'ARUC sur la gestion des âges et des temps sociaux, à la Téluq : Congedi di paternità, miracolo in Québec.
Pour lire la traduction en anglais de l'article Congedi (…)

- Gouvernance globale du travail (GGT) / Canada, Droit du travail, English, Québec, Entrevues dans les médias écrits

Climate change as a global political issue

2012-01-01T12:46:00Z

Abbas, M. (2012). Climate change as a global political issue. Atoms for Peace: An International Journal, vol. 3, n° 3, pp. 219-237
Résumé
The battle against climate change has placed decarbonised capitalism on the economic, political and social agenda. But the shift towards a regime of accumulation compatible with measures to mitigate climate change raises major issues regarding prosperity and power, on a human and political scale never previously entertained. The paper places climate (…)

- Gouvernance globale de l'environnement et de l'énergie (GGEE) / Environnement, English, Climat

The Challenge of Namingthe Other in Latin America

2011-10-11T14:09:00Z

Armony, Victor (2011) : « The Challenge of Namingthe Other in Latin America ». Dans Avigail Eisenberg et Will Kymlicka (dir.), Identity Politics in the Public Realm : Bringing Institutions Back, Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, p. 163-189.
Pour lire la préface de Identity Politics in the Public Realm : Bringing Institutions Back, cliquer ici.

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Green Capitalism : Toward a New Ideological⁄Policy Framework for Environmental Negotiations and Energy Innovation

2011-09-01T21:25:00Z

Mascotto, Guillaume. ‘Green Capitalism : Toward a New Ideological⁄Policy Framework for Environmental Negotiations and Energy Innovation'. In Lawrence Susskind and William Moomaw (eds.), Papers on International Environmental Negotiation Vol. 19. Cambridge : PON Books (Harvard Law School), 2011.

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The issue of sustainable development and its connections with climate change has been . fairly well examined from a scientific and public policy perspective. Most works on these issues have relied upon approaches that are either purely scientific based on scientific methods), technocratic focused on the bureaucratic and politico-diplomatic inconsistencies of international environmental negotiations, or journalistic either politically engaged or based simply on the restatement of facts). Although some accounts have proposed ingenious solutions to the problem from a theoretical or practical perspective, scant attention has been devoted to developing a framework that blends systemic and constitutive factors together to explain how come and not just why we are unable to move forward with international environmental negotiations and attaining sustainable development based on advanced and knowledge-intensive energy technologies.

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A neoinstitutionalist interpretation of the changes in the Russian oil model

2011-09-01T17:41:00Z

Locatelli, C., Rossiaud, S. (2011). A neoinstitutionalist interpretation of the changes in the Russian oil model. Energy Policy, vol. 39, n° 9, pp. 5588-5597.

Résumé
This paper deals with the current change of the institutional and organizational framework of the Russian oil industry. Regarding this evolution, the main characteristic is the increasing involvement of national oil companies in the upstream activities. The point is to explain this reorganization by relying on the New Institutional Economics framework. These theoretical works highlight that institutional environment and governance structures complement each other. We argue that the current reorganization in an attempt to increase the coherence of the institutional arrangement governing the transaction between the Russian state and the private oil companies.

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NAFTA : Springboard or Trap ?

2011-08-17T14:16:17Z

Deblock, Christian. 2011. « NAFTA : Springboard or Trap ? ». Dans Claude Auroi et Aline Helg (dir.), Latin America 1810-2010 : Dreams and Legacies, London, Imperial College Press.

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Several Souths : The Dynamics of the International Labour Movement in the Americas

2011-02-26T10:44:00Z

Collombat, Thomas. 2011. Several Souths : The Dynamics of the International Labour Movement in the Americas. Thèse de doctorat, Ottawa, Carleton University, 288 p.

Abstract

This thesis is about labour internationalism in the Americas. It examines the impact of the end of the Cold War and of the spread of neoliberal globalization on North-South relations within International Labour Movement Organizations (ILMOs) in the Americas. It is argued that the U.S. hegemony on the hemisphere observed during the Cold War is in decline and that we see increased diversity within labour internationalism in Latin America. Although some Southern unions have withdrawn from ILMOs, others have gained more influence within them, confirming that several Souths now co-exist within ILMOs. It is also argued that the Northern influence has diversified, with a gradual decline in U.S. domination over Latin America and greater influence from European trade unions.

This thesis is based on Critical International Political Economy, an eclectic, holistic and dialectical approach that permits an evaluation of the complex and contradictory nature of ILMOs. This research contributes to putting labour back onto the International Political Economy agenda and to illuminate the processes at work within important although understudied organizations.

Specifically, this thesis looks at the dynamics at work in two countries, Brazil and Mexico, within the Interamerican Regional Organization of Workers (ORIT), the Union Network International (UNI) and the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF). The thesis evaluates these organizations' evolution since the end of the Cold War, focusing on the process leading to the founding of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA), campaigns against free trade agreements and strategies used to confront Multinational Corporations. It relies on the perceptions of union representatives from Mexico and Brazil and suggests that while Mexican unions are now marginalized in these three ILMOs, Brazilian unions have gained much more influence. Domestic, regional and international factors are put forward to explain those differences. The legacy of corporatism and the lack of integration between unions in North America explain why Mexicans have lost their place within ILMOs. In contrast, the greater autonomy of the Brazilian labour movement and its long-standing relations with other unions in the Southern Cone contributes to its influence within ILMOs.

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