Continental Crucible - Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America

The crucible of North American neoliberal transformation is heating up, but its outcome is far from clear. Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective. This book also illustrates the ways in which the capitalist classes in Canada, Mexico, and the United States used free trade agreements to consolidate their agendas and organize themselves continentally.

The failure of traditional labor responses to stop the continental offensive being waged by big business has led workers and unions to explore new strategies of struggle and organization, pointing to the beginnings of a continental labor movement across North America. The battle for the future of North America has begun.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Roman, Edur Velasco Arregui
• Publisher: PM Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9781629630953
• ISBN: 978-1-62963-095-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology