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This book is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, assessing its efficacy in protecting workers' rights over the entire period it was in effect and demonstrating its broader significance for the role of trade and labor standards in U.S. foreign policy.
List of contents
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
1. The International Defense of Labor Rights: Concepts, Policy Arenas, and the Challenge of State Sovereignty
2. Pathways to the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: From Multilateral Proposals to Unilateral Actions Linking Labor Rights and Trade Agreements
3. Context and Constraints: The Origin and Negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement’s Labor Rights Provisions
4. The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation in Principle and in Practice, 1994–2020
5. Legacies of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: Labor Rights, U.S. Free-Trade Agreements, and U.S.-Mexican Negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, 2001–2017
6. Renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement: Labor Rights and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, 2017–2019
7. Labor Rights, Trade Agreements, State Sovereignty: Past Record and Future Prospects
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Statistical Analysis of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences Cases, 1985–1995
Appendix B: Annotated List of NAALC Public Communications Submitted to the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. National Administrative Offices (NAOs), 1994–2020
Appendix C: Annotated List of Public Submissions to the U.S. Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA), 2008–2016
Appendix D: Annotated List of Rapid Response Mechanism Petitions Concerning Mexico Submitted to the U.S. Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement, 2021–2022
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Kevin J. Middlebrook (1950–2022) was professor of Latin American politics at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. His books include The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico (1995) and Organized Labour and Politics in Mexico: Changes, Continuities, and Contradictions (2012).
Summary
This book is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, assessing its efficacy in protecting workers’ rights over the entire period it was in effect and demonstrating its broader significance for the role of trade and labor standards in U.S. foreign policy.
