NAFTA and Labor in North America

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Notes introduction 1. Matilde Pérez U., Carolina Gómez, and Gabriel León Zaragoza, “Se agotan tiempos para el diálogo: campesinos,” La Jornada, February 1, 2008. 2. Claudia Herrera Beltrán and David Brooks, “Rechazo al TLCAN, al llegar Calder ón a barrio de Chicago” La Jornada, February 13, 2008. 3. James Parks, “On Capitol Hill, Mexican Miners Tell of Police Violence to Break Strike,” AFL-CIO Blog, February 13, 2008, http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/02/13/ on-capitol-hill-mexican-miners-describe-police-violence-to-break-their-strike/ (accessed May 31, 2008). 4. Peter Marsh, “China to Overtake US as Largest Manufacturer,” Financial Times, August 10, 2008. 5. Larry Rohter, “Bush Faces Tough Time in South America,” New York Times, November 5, 2005. 6. United Nations, United Nations Investment Report (New York: United Nations, 1992), 256. 7. Douglas A. Irwin, Free Trade Under Fire, 2nd ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 5–21. 8. United Nations Council on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 2006: FDI from Developing and Transition Economies—Implications for Development (New York: United Nations, 2006), 10. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. 11. This process is extensively discussed in Alan Tonelson, The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002). 198 . notes to pages 5–12 12. Several studies on globalization advance this thesis. Examples include Goran Therborn, “Introduction from the Universal to the Global,” International Sociology 15, no. 2 (June 2000): 149–50; Jacques B. Gelinas, Juggernaut Politics: Understanding Predatory Globalization (London: Zed Books, 2003); Ronaldo Munck, Labour and Globalisation: The New “Great Transformation” (London: Zed Books, 2002). 13. Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 9. 14. Jeff Faux, The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future —and What It Will Take to Win It Back (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2006), 4–11. Chapter 1: Labor and Global Capitalism in North America, 1850–1970 1. Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order (New York: Basic Books, 2004). 2. C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction (New York: Anchor Books, 1956). 3. Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Social History of American Technology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 11–16. 4. Ferguson, Empire. 5. David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 214. 6. David Montgomery, “Workers’ Movements in the United States Confront Imperialism : The Progressive Era Experience,” Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7, no. 1 (January 2008): 13. 7. Errol Black and Jim Silver, Building a Better World: An Introduction to Trade Unionism in Canada (Halifax, NS: Fernwood, 2001), 88–93. 8. Ibid. 9. Stephen Clarkson, Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), 18–22. 10. Black and Silver, Building a Better World, 89–90. 11. Gilbert G. González and Raúl A. Fernández, A Century of Chicano History: Empire, Nations and Migration (New York: Routledge, 2003), 29–60. 12. David Montgomery, “Labor in the Industrial Era,” in Robert B. Morris, ed., The U.S. Department of Labor Bicentennial History of The American Worker (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976), 116–17. 13. A seminal history of the Knights of Labor is Leon Fink, Workingmen’s Democracy : The Knights of Labor and American Politics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985). 14. David Brian Robertson, Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), 83. notes to pages 12–17 · 199 15. Philip Taft, “Workers of a New Century,” in Robert B. Morris, ed., The U.S. Department of Labor Bicentennial History of the American Worker (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976), 153. 16. Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969). 17. Black and Silver, Building a Better World, 95. 18. Ibid., 94–95. 19. Montgomery, “Workers’ Movements Confront Imperialism,” 18. 20. Black and Silver, Building a Better World, 99. 21. Craig Heron, The Canadian Labor Movement: A Short History (Toronto: James Lorimer, 1989), 47. 22. John Mason Hart, Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War (Berkeley and...