Incomes and Productivity in North America: Papers from the 1998 Seminar
 For
the second consecutive year the Commission
for Labor Cooperation brought together
in Dallas prominent academic economist
and high-level labor and business
representatives to exchange their
ideas and experiences on the linkages
between incomes and productivity in
the North American region.
The objective of the 1998 North
American Seminar on Incomes and Productivity
was to analyze the dynamics of incomes
and productivity in the auto industry,
one of the first industrial sectors
to become "globalized", and, more
broadly, to examine the question of
incomes and productivity in a cross-sectorial
analytical perspective.
Authors were invited to address such
questions as: How is productivity
linked to income at the workplace
level? What is the impact of new forms
of work organization? How do employment
factors such as continuos learning
and technological change interface
with the changing structure of the
workforce? How do subcontractors and
contingent workers fit in? Is there
a relationship between unionization
and income/productivity performance?
How does international integration
affect workplace issues?
The Seminar was sponsored by the
Commission for Labor Cooperation through
its Secretariat and was co-sponsored
by Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo
de México, North American Policy Studies
Program; Laval University-Quebec,
Department of Industrial Relations;
and The Center for the Study of the
Western Hemispheric Trade (Texas A/M
University and the University of Texas
at Austin).
The proceedings of the event have
been published by the Secretariat
under the title Incomes and Productivity
in North America: Papers from the
1998 Seminar, available in the
three official languages of the NAALC.
Table of Contents
Foreword
John
S. McKennirey
Introduction
Alfredo
Hernández
Chapter 1. Opening Remarks: Overview
of the Seminar on Incomes and
Productivity
in North America
Norma
Samaniego-Breach
Chapter 2. Does a Kick in the Pants
Get You Going or Does It just Hurt?
The
Impact
of International Competition on Technological
change in US
Manufacturing
Robert
Z. Lawrence
Chapter 3. Trade and the Economics
of Winners and Losers
Marc
Van Audenrode
Chapter 4. Employment, Productivity
and Salaries within NAFTA. The Case
of
Mexico:
a Multi-Sectorial Analysis
Clemente
Ruiz-Durán
Chapter 5. Comments on Chapter 2
Daniel
Schwanen
Chapter 6. Comments on Chapter 4
Juan
S. Millán
Chapter 7. Globalization, Economic
Integration and Workers in North America
Buzz
Hargrove
Chapter 8. Incomes and Productivity
in the Auto Industry in North America
Sidney
Weintraub
Chapter 9. Productivity, Income
and Labor in the Automotive Industry
in Mexico
Jorge
Carrillo
Chapter 10. Productivity, Income,
and Recent Developments in the Canadian
Automotive
Sector
James
A. Brox and Christine Fader
Chapter 11. Comments on Chapters
4, 8 and 9
Thomas
G. Marx
Chapter 12. Comments on Chapters
8, 9 and 10
Steve
Beckman
Appendixes
A. Main Official Statistical Indicators
on Incomes and Productivity in North
America
Compiled
by Dr. José Luis Alberro
B. About the Speakers
C. Abbreviations and Acronyms
For a free copy of this
report write to clcpubs@naalc.org.
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