The Forgotten Link: Labor’s Stake in International Economic Cooperation

Workers in the developed countries are facing a new set of world economic relationships, increasingly shaped by the processes of international economic integration. This book addresses a central and increasingly debated topic in economic policy: Where does labour fit in the global economy? and what can labour gain or lose from increasing economic integration? In the United Stated, these issues have stimulated wide debate over immigration law reform trade barriers, compensation for dislocated workers, illegal aliens, local content law, and the economic impact of immigration. European issues include the implications for labour of the Single Market (1991), the ongoing influx from Eastern Europe and visions or nightmares about future labour exchanges, the growing illegal or clandestine immigration into southern Europe, especially Italy, of Africans, and such concerns as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s proposal to give 50,000 visas.