Chapter 5: "Labor Displacement: The Race From The Bottom Toward New Cooperative Agreements," Molly Scott

  1. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Overview: The North American Free Trade Agreement, Aug. 1992.
  2. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Displaced Workers Summary: Worker Displacement During the Mid-1990's. October 25, 1996 <http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/disp.nws.htm>
  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS Releases New 1996-2006 Employment Projections, Dec. 3, 1997, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.nws.htm.
  4. See david Cagen's chapter on the winners and losers of NAFTA.
  5. Heredia, Carlos. "Downward Mobility: Mexican Workers After NAFTA," NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. XXX, (3), Nov./Dec. 1996.
  6. See Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS Releases New 1996-2006 Employment Projections.
  7. See Yasmin Azam's chapter on migration, p.4.
  8. See Carlos Heredia.
  9. U.S. Council of the Mexico-U.S. Business Committee. Right of Association and Right to Strike, page 2. http://www.coha.org/pressr/naftapr.html.
  10. Council on Hemispheric Affairs. NAFTA's Failure to Deliver, June 27-29, 1997, page 2. http://www.coha.org/pressr/naftapr.html.
  11. King, Mike. "NAFTA firms in Mexico Threatening Workers: Steel Union," The Gazette, Dec. 10, 1997, page A10.
  12. Reich, Robert. The Work of Nations. New York: Vintage Books, 1992, pages 172-173.
  13. See Margaret Bek's chapter on innovations and policy alternatives, p.17.
  14. David Balaam & Michael Veseth. Introduction to International Political Economy. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996, page 454.
  15. Office of the United States Trade Representative and Related Entities. Study on the Operation and Effect of the North American free Trade Agreement, Jan. 27, 1998, Chapter 1, Part 2, page 7.
  16. See Rebecca Stanton's chapter, page 2.
  17. Estrada, Richard. The Dallas Morning News, "Matching High-Tech Jobs With Ill-Prepared Workers," Jan. 20, 1998, page 13.
  18. See Cagen's chapter in reference to the gap between the wealthy and poor.
  19. The New York Times, "4 Years After NAFTA, Labor is Forging Cross-Border Ties," Dec,. 20, 1997, pages A1 and A5.
  20. Ibid., A! and A5.
  21. See Richard Estrada.
  22. Ibid., page A21.
  23. The forces that drive workers to migrate are further explained in the Migration Chapter by Yasmin Azam.
  24. Shaiken, Harley. "Going South: Mexican Wages and U.S. Jobs After NAFTA," The American Prospect, Fall, 1993, no. 15., http://epn.org/prospect/15/15schu.html.
  25. CLC-Policy Reports and Notes, "Impact of NAFTA on Mexican Workers," http://www.clc-ctc.com/policy/nafta4.html, Ch. 4.
  26. This is analyzed in more detail in Stacey Stack's chapter on NAFTA and women.
  27. See CLC-Policy Reports and Notes, "Impact of NAFTA on Mexican Workers."
  28. Ibid., Ch. 4.
  29. Multinational Economic Organizations, 464
  30. Eggertson, Laura. "Trading in tears NAFTA woes: Firms fire workers in Canada, hire thousands in Mexico," Toronto Star, Jan. 12, 1998, page A12.
  31. Multinational Economic Organizations, 466
  32. See Laura Eggertson, page A12.
  33. Labor Notes, "U.S. Groups Developing Plans for Dealing with proposed Mexico Free Trade Agreement," March 1991, page 7.
  34. Cowie, Jefferson. "The Search for a Transnational Labor Discourse For a North American Economy: A Critical Review of U.S. Labor's Campaign NAFTA," Duke-University of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies. May 1994, page 35.
  35. Herzenberg, Steven. Calling Maggie's Bluff: The NAFTA Labor Agreement and the Development of an Alternative to Neoliberalism. Orone: Canadian-American Public Policy, 1996, page 5-6.
  36. Ibid., page 6.
  37. Please refer to the Policy Chapter by Margaret Bek on how the labor side accord can be implemented more effectively.