The International Labour Standards Debate in the Brazilian Labour Movement: Engagement with Mercosur and Opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas

Autor: Riethof, Marieke
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Internationale Beziehungen
Recht
Soziologie
Anthropologie
International relations
Law
Sociology & anthropology
Free Trade Area of the Americas
FTAA
international labour standards
internationale Beziehungen
Entwicklungspolitik
Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie
Arbeitssoziologie
industrielle Beziehungen
International Relations
International Politics
Foreign Affairs
Development Policy
Sociology of Work
Industrial Sociology
Industrial Relations
Freihandelszone
Globalisierung
Lateinamerika
MERCOSUR
regionale Integration
wirtschaftliche Integration
Handel
Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
Brasilien
Arbeiterbewegung
Gewerkschaft
Arbeitnehmerschutz
Arbeitsrecht
soziale Rechte
Entwicklungsland
Arbeitspolitik
free trade area
globalization
Latin America
regional integration
economic integration
commerce
economic relations
Brazil
labor movement
trade union
protection of employee rights
labor law
social rights
developing country
labor policy
Zdroj: Politics and Governance, 5, 4, 30-39, Labour Standards in a Global Environment
Druh dokumentu: Zeitschriftenartikel<br />journal article
ISSN: 2183-2463
DOI: 10.17645/pag.v5i4.1090
Popis: The social dimensions of economic integration have become an increasingly significant feature of trade agreements, particularly those between developing countries. In the Brazilian case trade-related labour standards have not become a major feature outside of the regional organization Mercosur (Common Market of the South), yet we know relatively little about the reasons for this discrepancy. Paradoxically one of the main stakeholders in this debate, Brazilian trade unions, has broadly supported social and labour clauses in the regional context but union activists have opposed labour provisions in trade negotiations between asymmetric partners. A comparative analysis of the labour campaigns in Mercosur and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations explains this ambiguity in terms of Brazilian labour strategies towards free trade negotiations and explores their implications for evaluations of labour attitudes to trade-related labour standards in developing countries. The labour movement’s own conflicting perspectives on the trade-labour connection are a key explanation of these outcomes, reinforcing the need for a greater appreciation of the complexity of trade union views in the debate on labour standards.
Databáze: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
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