Richard Roman is associate professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Toronto and a fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University.
Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America, Second Edition
SKU: 9781629630953
Author: Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui • Foreword by Steve Early • Preface by Mel Watkins
Publisher: PM Press/Fernwood
ISBN: 9781629630953
Published: 5/2015
Format: Pamphlet, ePub, mobi, PDF
Page count: 192
Size: 9 x 6
Subjects: Political Economy/Labor Studies
Praise
“This insightful, revealing, and passionate book is a must read for
workers and union activists all over the world in their efforts to
develop strategies to overcome neoliberalism. The creation of a single
North American and global labor market by NAFTA and neoliberal
globalization has created both the bases and the necessity for workers
and unions to move beyond nationalism and chauvinism.”
—Alejandro
Álvarez, socioeconomist and professor at the Faculty of
Economics–Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, National
Autonomous University of Mexico), member of the Trinational Coalition in
Defense of Public Education and of the ’68 Pro-Democratic Liberties
Committee.
“The analysis presented by the authors and the conclusions they come
to are fundamentally sound. The call for going beyond basic cooperation
between unions to a profound transformation of unions into organizations
fighting for the needs and aspirations of working people in all three
countries is powerful and exciting. This very readable text may well
prove crucial for those wanting to move beyond a national framework and
encompass one that is continental and global.”
—Chris Schenk, Global Labour Journal
“All of those interested in understanding the nature of the problems
we face in taking on the capitalist class and building a new continental
labor movement will find this book essential.”
—Dan La Botz, New Politics
“The product of decades of close collaboration between two participant/observers of the Mexican labor movement, Continental Crucible
is a significant contribution to the literature on NAFTA and labor that
merits the study and consideration of labor educators.”
—Labor Studies Journal
“Roman and Velasco have made a valuable contribution to understanding
the convergence of North American political economy under free trade
and neoliberalism, and a timely intervention in their call for a
transnational labor movement with transformative ambitions.”
—Working USA
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