FC, forget "mainland dissident and a labour activist". Planted there by the IG Metall and AFLC-CIO to hamper China's progress.
>>America’s organized labor which used to support a liberal trade policy. “The leaders of American labor in both the AFL-CIO and the UAW worked strenuously until the late 1960s to convince their constitutiencies than an international economy open to trade and investment served the political and economic interests of the U.S. Radosh, Ronald, American Labor and United States Foreign Policy, Random House, 1969. Gus Tyler, “Labour’s Multinational Pains”, Foreign Policy, no. 12 (Fall 1973), pp.113-32.
But starting on the seventies they started becoming increasingly protectionist. As AFL-CIO unions started favoring import quotas during the 1970s. And for the first time they started being interested in international labor relations. Coincidentally with the time they started feeling the competition from low developing countries. Moreover in the late 1970s the AFL-CIO was supporting the imposition of wider controls with the aims of slowing the growth in the manufacture of high technology goods abroad that might compete with U.S. exports. Vernon, Raymond & Wells Jr., Louis T., Economic Environment of International Business, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1972. 3rd ed.
Sweden became the first home country to enact comprehensive legislation governing direct investment by domestic firms. This wasn't a concern for workers in other countries. “The major concern of Sweden’s blue collar unions was investment in low-wage countries, notably Finland, Ireland and Portugal. White collar workers feared the export of Swedish technology. Both concerns developed during 1971-73, when there was recession in Sweden and sharp increase in foreign direct investment by Swedish-based firms.” Bergsten, Fred C., Horst T., Moran Theodore H., American Multinationals and American Interests, Washington, D.C., The Brooking Institution, 1978.
Developed countries' unions pushing labor regulations in low developing countries' (LDC's) are more concerned with their own situation at home rather than with LDCs’.
We have to witness the concern with labor in the European regions with lower cost labor is a recent phenomenon. The concern of the northern European countries towards the Spanish and Portuguese labor regulations only started after they saw the prospect of the European integration taking away jobs from them.<<
You should have read Elmat's "book to end all the other books".
1.3 billio, Chinese can't eat human rights. They eat chicken, beef, ground nuts, rice, beef... Let them export their way of poverty.
Once they get rich, then historians can right "The Situation fo the working class Chinese in 2005" and other crap. |
