LEADER 04561nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910815834103321 005 20240416113336.0 010 $a0-8014-6256-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462566 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036256 035 $a(OCoLC)732957174 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468074 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541554 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11334164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541554 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10499401 035 $a(PQKB)11633551 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138195 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28942 035 $a(DE-B1597)515044 035 $a(OCoLC)1091660556 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462566 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138195 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468074 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036256 100 $a20090326d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStates' gains, labor's losses $eChina, France, and Mexico choose global liaisons, 1980-2000 /$fDorothy J. Solinger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca [N.Y.] $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4777-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states. In the late 1970's, 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. 606 $aLabor policy$zChina 606 $aLabor policy$zFrance 606 $aLabor policy$zMexico 606 $aIndustrial relations$zChina 606 $aIndustrial relations$zFrance 606 $aIndustrial relations$zMexico 607 $aChina$xForeign economic relations 607 $aFrance$xForeign economic relations 607 $aMexico$xForeign economic relations 615 0$aLabor policy 615 0$aLabor policy 615 0$aLabor policy 615 0$aIndustrial relations 615 0$aIndustrial relations 615 0$aIndustrial relations 676 $a331.12/042 700 $aSolinger$b Dorothy J$0148125 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815834103321 996 $aStates' gains, labor's losses$94036654 997 $aUNINA