PP811
Analítico de Periódico
DOMBOIS, Rainer, e outros
Transnational labour regulation in the NAFTA : a problem of institutional design? : the case of the North American Agreemment on Labour Cooperation between the USA, Mexico and Canada / Rainer Dombois, Erhard Hornberger, Jens Winter
The international journal of comparative labour law and industrial relations, The Hague, v.19n.4(2003), p.421-440
DIREITO ECONÓMICO, DIREITO ECONÓMICO INTERNACIONAL, POLÍTICA SOCIAL, DIREITO DO TRABALHO
The paper deals with the conditions and perspetives of institutionalized forms of transnational social policy in an internationalized economy, focusing on the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC) between the US, Canadá and Mexico, one of the two NAFTA side agreements. With the NAALC the three governments assumed the obligation to promote, enforce and improve social standards within the framework of their national labor legislation. In order tom foster compliance with the agreement, international and national institutions were set up as well as procedures for cooperation and complaints. The paper will present some conclusions on the practices and effects of the NAALC drawn from an empirical research project funded by the Volkswagen Foundadtion from June 1999 to May 2002. It outlines some specific problems of the NAALC: the institutional weakness of the international organization, the intergovernmental game of cooperation and conflict strategies at low intensity; the disillusionment of the actors of civil society. It draws some more general conclusions on the problems of the international regulation of labor: the problem of sovereignty and the embeddedness of labor relations; that of dominance; that of the balance between cooperation and conflict, and that of the participation of civil actors.