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Trading Away the Future

Trading Away the Future Paige Shell-Spurling, Oregon Fair Trade Campaign member against the Trans-Pacific Partnership 498856 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796013498856New Labor ForumStamoulis research-article2013 New Labor Forum 22(3) 30–37 Trading Away the Future: An Copyright © 2013, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Analysis of the Trans-Pacific Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796013498856 Partnership nlf.sagepub.com Arthur Stamoulis Keywords globalization, outsourcing, neoliberalism, corporations, international trade The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) dwarfs the the last year, Thailand’s Prime Minister North American Free Trade Agreement announced that he was in discussions with the (NAFTA) in both its economic scale and its Obama administration about the pact, the potential to undercut wages and worker power Philippines unveiled a policy “roadmap” for throughout the globe. As a measure of its threat joining the TPP, and South Korea has enter- to organized labor in the United States, the tained overtures from U.S. trade officials. Even AFL-CIO Executive Council adopted a policy Chinese officials have said they are considering statement on the TPP this February asserting joining. that reversing race-to-the-bottom trade deals is To put this in context, the TPP’s docking “as important as our work to promote freedom mechanism could enable corporate interest of association and collective bargaining.” The groups to circumvent http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Trading Away the Future

Stamoulis, Arthur
New Labor Forum , Volume 22 (3): 8 – Sep 1, 2013
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Paige Shell-Spurling, Oregon Fair Trade Campaign member against the Trans-Pacific Partnership 498856 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796013498856New Labor ForumStamoulis research-article2013 New Labor Forum 22(3) 30–37 Trading Away the Future: An Copyright © 2013, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Analysis of the Trans-Pacific Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796013498856 Partnership nlf.sagepub.com Arthur Stamoulis Keywords globalization, outsourcing, neoliberalism, corporations, international trade The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) dwarfs the the last year, Thailand’s Prime Minister North American Free Trade Agreement announced that he was in discussions with the (NAFTA) in both its economic scale and its Obama administration about the pact, the potential to undercut wages and worker power Philippines unveiled a policy “roadmap” for throughout the globe. As a measure of its threat joining the TPP, and South Korea has enter- to organized labor in the United States, the tained overtures from U.S. trade officials. Even AFL-CIO Executive Council adopted a policy Chinese officials have said they are considering statement on the TPP this February asserting joining. that reversing race-to-the-bottom trade deals is To put this in context, the TPP’s docking “as important as our work to promote freedom mechanism could enable corporate interest of association and collective bargaining.” The groups to circumvent

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