From Conflict to Coalition

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-107-16880-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

International trade often inspires intense conflict between workers and their employers. In this book, Adam Dean studies the conditions under which labor and capital collaborate to support trade policies. Dean argues that capital-labor agreement on trade policy depends on the presence of 'profit-sharing institutions'. He tests this theory through case studies from the United States, Britain, and Argentina in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; they offer a revisionist history placing class conflict at the center of the political economy of trade. Analysis of data from more than one hundred countries from 1986 to 2002 demonstrates that the field's conventional wisdom systematically exaggerates the benefits that workers receive from trade policy reforms. From Conflict to Coalition boldly explains why labor is neither an automatic beneficiary nor an automatic ally of capital when it comes to trade policy and distributional conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dean, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. A theory of profit-sharing institutions; 3. Evidence and research design; 4. The gilded wage; 5. Liberalized by labor; 6. Trade politics in Britain and Argentina; 7. Power over profits; 8. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Dean, Adam
Adam Dean is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, Vermont. He specializes in international relations with a focus on international political economy. His research interests include the political economy of trade, labor politics, and American Political Development. He earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, his MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.