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Annex 6: Bibliography

 

Adams, Roy J.; Singh, Parbudyal. - "Early Experience with NAFTA's Labour Side Accord." - Comparative Labor Law Journal, Vol. 18, no. 2, Winter 1997.

Anderson, Sarah; John Cavanagh; David Ranney. - NAFTA's First Two Years: The Myths and the Realities. - Institute for Policy Studies, 1996.

Barbieri, Catherine T. - "Women Workers in Transition: The Potential Impact of the NAFTA Labor Side Agreement on Women Workers in Argentina and Chile." - Comparative Labour Law Journal, Vol. 17, Spring 1996.

Bazar, Jason S. - "Is the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation Working for Workers' Rights?" - California Western International Law Journal, Vol. 25, no. 2, Spring 1995.

Befort, Stephen F.; Cornett, Virgina E. - "Beyond the Rhetoric of the NAFTA Treaty Debate: A Comparative Analysis of Labor and Employment Law in Mexico and the United States." - Comparative Labor Law Journal, Vol. 17, no. 2, Winter 1996.

Bensusán, Graciela. - "Regional Integration and Institutional Change: Labor Reform in North America." - Paper presented to the Symposium on International Labor Rights and Standards after NAFTA, Rutgers University, New Jersey: May 2-3, 1996.

Bierman, Leonard; Rafael Gely. - "The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: A New Frontier in North American Labor Rlations." - Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 1995.

Bouzas Ortiz, José Alfonso. - "Balance del acuerdo de cooperación laboral de América del Norte." - Momento económico 91. Información y análisis de la coyuntura económica. Mercado laborales. - Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, UNAM, May-June 1997.

Bread for the World Institute. - "Labour Standards in a Global Economy: A Summary of the Issues and Options." - Draft, Nov. 1995.

Breger, Marshall J. - "Hitting Mexican Industry with NAFTA Rules: U.S. Labor Unions are Trying to Turn the Procedures Established under a NAFTA Side Agreement into a Mechanism for Halting Job Flight South of the Border." - Legal Times, Vol. 17 no. 26, 1994.

Bright, Rich. - "NAFTA's Labor Side Agreement Muscle: Can Moral Suasion Work?" - Biennial Conference of the Middle Atlantic and New England (11th), Conference for Canadian Studies (MANECCS). - Rochester, N.Y.: October 13-15, 1994.

Brill, Edward A.; Oratz, Stephanie L. - "Labor Accord Put to the Test; Recent Complaints Have Focused Attention on a Side Agreement to NAFTA; Hearings are Scheduled." - National Law Journal, Vol. 17, no. 3, 1994.

Canadian Labour Congress. - Social Dimensions of North American Economic Integration: Impacts on Working People and Emerging Responses. - Ottawa 1996.

Cavazos Flores, Baltasar. - El nuevo derecho del trabajo mexicano. - México: Editorial Trillas, first edition, 1997.

---; Cavazos Chena, Guillermo. - Hacia un nuevo derecho laboral: estudio comparativo entre la legislación laboral de E.U. y Canadá y el derecho laboral mexicano. - México: Editorial Trillas, second edition, 1994.

Charnovitz, Steve. - "NAFTA's Social Dimension: Lessons from the Past and Framework for the Future." - International Trade Journal, Vol. 8.

---. "Promoting Higher Labor Standards." - Washington Quarterly, Summer 1995.

Compa, Lance. - "Los sindicatos norteamericanos y el Tratado de Libre Comercio." - Revista del trabajo, Año 1, no. 3, June-August 1994.

---. "The First NAFTA Labor Cases: A New International Labor Rights Regime Takes Shape." - U.S.-Mexico Law Journal, Vol. 3, 1995.

---. "Going Multilateral: The Evolution of U.S. Hemispheric Labor Rights Policy under GSP and NAFTA." - Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 1995.

---. "NAFTA's Labor Side Accord: A Three-Year Accounting." - NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas, Vol. III, no. 3, Summer 1997.

---. "Another Look at NAFTA. " - Dissent, Winter 1997, pp. 45-50.

Cook, Maria Elena. - "Regional Integration and Transnational Labor Strategies under NAFTA. " - Regional Integration and Industrial Relations in North America. - eds. Maria Elena Cook; Harry C. Katz, - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press , 1994, pp. 142, 157.

---; et. al. "Making Free Trade More Fair: Developments in Protecting Labor Rights." - Labor Law Journal, April 17-19, 1997 [Final Report of the NAFTA Committee of the Industrial Relations Research Association, May 1997].

Cowie, Jefferson; French, John. - "NAFTA's Labor Side Accord: A Textual Analysis." - Labor and NAFTA: A Briefing Book? - Conference on Labor and Free Trade. - Duke University, Durham, N.C.: Aug. 25-27, 1994.

Crandall, Elizabeth. - "Will NAFTA's North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation Improve Enforcement of Mexican Labor Laws?" - Transnational Lawyer, Vol. 7, no. 1, 1994.

Daily Labor Report. - "NAFTA Countries React to Labor Side Agreement, Three Years After Pact's Implementation." - January 16, 1997.

Dean, David A. - "The Labor Supplemental Agreement." - Labor Law Development, Carol J. Holgren, Matthew Bender, eds., 1995.

Diamond, Stephen F. - "Labor Rights in the Global Economy: A Case Study of the North American Free Trade Agreement." - Human Rights, Labor Rights and International Trade. - Compa, Lance; Diamond, Stephen F. eds. - Baltimore, MD: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Díaz, Luis Miguel. - "Obligaciones de los estados y derechos de los particulares en los acuerdos paralelos del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte." - México: Escritos Jurídicos, UNAM, 1994.

---. "The NAFTA Tri-lateral Commissions on the Environment and Labor." - United States-Mexico Law Journal, Vol. 2, University of New Mexico School of Law; Symposium 1994.

Dixon, Thomas M. - "An Overview of the NAFTA Labor Side Agreement." - International Quarterly, Vol. 7, no. 1, Jan. 1995.

Elwell, Christine. - "Human Rights, Labour Standards and the New World Trade Organization: Opportunities for a Linkage - a Canadian Perspective". - Montreal: International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 1995.

Feldman, Monica. - "Institutional Aspects: Labor and the Secretariat." - NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas, Vol. 1, no. 3, Summer 1995.

Friedenzohn, Daniel. - "The 'Reality' Faced by Mexican Employees Who Lose Their Jobs: A Review of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation and Two U.S. National Administrative Office Decisions." - Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, Vol. 22, Spring 1996.

Fuentes, Manuel. - "The NAFTA Labor Side Accord in Mexico and its Repercussions for Workers." - Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 1995.

Garvey, Jack. - "Trade Law and Quality of Life - Dispute Resolution under NAFTA - Side Agreements on Labor and Environment." - American Journal of International Law, Vol. 89, no. 2, 1995.

Gilbert, Robert W. - "NAFTA's North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC)." - Employment and Industrial Relations Law Journal, Vol 4, no. 2, Sept. 1994.

Guerra, María Teresa. - "El TLC y el derecho laboral de México y Estados Unidos." - Trabajo y Democracia Hoy, no. 34, November-December 1996.

---. Los acuerdos de cooperación laboral y el derecho del trabajo en México y Estados Unidos.- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, University of Tucson, Arizona: 1997.

Hagen, Katherine A. - "Fundamentals of Labor Issues and NAFTA." - Paper presented at the Symposium on Free Trade and Democratic Values: NAFTA's Effect on Human Rights. - U.C. Davis Law Review, Vol. 27, Summer 1994, p. 917.

Haussman, Melissa. - "Politics of Convergence? The Relationship of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) to National Worker Protections in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico." - Suffolk University. Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.: August 28-31, 1997.

Helfeld, David M. - "NAALC in the Eyes of the Beholder." - Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 1995.>

Hernández, Alfredo. - "Acuerdo de Cooperación Laboral de América del Norte." - Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior, no. 46, Spring 1995.

Herzenberg, Stephen. - "Switching Tracks: Using NAFTA's Labor Agreement to Move toward the High Road." - International Labor Rights and Standards after NAFTA Symposium, May 2-3, 1996, Rutgers University.

---. "Testimony before the U.S. National Administrative Office Regarding Submission #9601." - Harrisburg, PA: Keystone Research Center.

---. "Calling Maggie's Bluff: The NAFTA Labor Agreement and the Development of an Alternative to Neoliberalism." - Canadian-American Public Policy, no. 28, Dec. 1996.

Herzstein, Robert E. - "Labor Cooperation Agreement among Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Its Negotiation and Prospects." - US-Mexico Law Journal, Vol. 3, 1995, pp. 121-131.

Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul. - Latino Review of President Clinton's NAFTA Package: Part 1: NAFTA's Labor Market Impacts and the Side Agreements on Labor and Environmental Standards. - William C. Velasquez Institute, 1997 [Inter-Mestic Initiatives Paper 1].

Housman, Robert F. - "The Treatment of Labor and Environmental Issues in Future Western Hemisphere Trade Liberalization Efforts." - Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, 1995, p. 310.

"Implementation: Labor and Environmental." - NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas, Vol. I, no. 1, Winter 1995.

Lara Sáenz, Leoncio. - "Acuerdo de Cooperación Laboral de América del Norte." - Lecturas Jurídicas, Epoca II, Vol. 11, March 1997.

---. "Acuerdo de Cooperación Laboral de América del Norte. - Seminario de Derecho para Abogados y Estudiantes Latinoamericanos", University of Texas-Austin, July 1996.

Lastra, José Manuel. - "Resoluciones de controversias en material laboral en el TLCAN." - Resolución de controversias comerciales en América del Norte, Jorge Witker, ed. - UNAM, 1994.

Lavalle, Marianne. - "NAFTA Jars Labor Laws; U.S., Mexico to Discuss Criticisms of Sprint's Firing of Employees." - The National Law Journal, Vol. 17, July 10, 1995.

---. "Labor's Charges Test NAFTA Rules in Mexico." - The National Law Journal, Vol. 17 no. 3, Sept. 19, 1994.

Leclerc, Louis; Lesage, Laurent; Tremblay, Guy. - Normes du travail dans l'ALÉNA. - Montreal: Université de Montréal, 1995.

Levinson, Jerome I. - "NAFTA's Labor Agreement: Lessons From the First Three Years." - Institute for Policy Studies and the International Labor Rights Fund, November 12, 1996.

López, David. - "Dispute Resolution under NAFTA: Lessons from the Early Experience." - Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 32, no. 2, Spring 1997.

López H., MarÍa Victoria. - "Movilidad laboral y libre comercio en América del Norte," Comercio Exterior, Publicación de Bancomext, Vol. 47, Num. 5, México, May 1997, pp. 412-417.

Lowe, Sarah. - "The First American Case under the North American Agreement for Labor Cooperation." - University of Miami Law Review, Vol. 51, no. 2, 1997.

Maschino, Dalil. - "L'Accord nord-américain de coopération dans le domaine du travail." - Le marché du travail, Vol. 16, no. 3, March 1995.

---. "L'Accord nord-américain dans le domaine du travail et la clause sociale." - Droits du travail et commerce international, R. Laperrière, ed. - Editions Yvon Blair, Montreal: 1995.

---; Griego, Eric. - "Accord nord-américain de coopération dans le domaine du travail (ANACT): bilan et perspectives." - Le marché du travail, April 1997.

McFadyen, Jacqueline. - "NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review." - Institute for International Economics, May, 1998.

McKennirey, John S. - "Labor in the International Economy." - Canada-United States Law Journal, Vol. 22, 1996.

"Mexico: Labor Rights and NAFTA: A Case Study." - Human Rights Watch/Americas, Vol. 8, no. 8B, Sept. 1996.

Moreau, M.A.; Trudeau, G.; Staelens, P. - "ALENA, CEE, EEE: nouveaux espaces economiques et distortions sociales." - Problémes economiques, no. 2381, June 22, 1994.

Morpaw, May - "L'Accord nord-américain dans le domaine du travail: historique, points saillants, mise en oeuvre et importance." - Droits du travail et commerce international, R. Laperrière, ed. - Montreal: Editions Yvon Blais, 1995.

---. "The Changing Employment Relationship under Economic Integration." - Closing Address at the 1995 Conference of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association, May 1995.

---. "The North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation: Highlights, Implementation and Significance." - The Globalization of the Economy and the Worker, Selected Papers from the XXXII Annual CIRA Conference, 1995.

Mumme, Stephen; Stevis, Dimitris. - "NAFTA and International Social Policy." - Presented at the International Studies Association Convention, February 1995.

---; "Comparing Regional Social Policies: Labor and the Environment in Europe and North America." - Western Political Science Association Convention, Tucson, Arizona: Colorado State University, March 12-15, 1997.

Murphy, Betty Southard. - "NAFTA's North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: the Present and the Future." - Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 1995.

"NAFTA Comes into Force - With a Glimmer of a Social Clause." - International Labour Review, Vol. 133, no. 1, 1994.

"North American Integration: A Trade Union Perspective and Status of Implementing Organizations." Geneva: International Metalworkers' Federation, 1996.

Núñez, Osvaldo. - "Quebec's Perspective on Social Aspects and the Broadening of Free Trade in the Americas." - Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol 11, no. 2, Winter 1996.

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. - "The Impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on the U.S. Economy and Industries: A Three-Year Review." - January 28, 1997.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. "Trade, Employement and the Labour Standards: A Study of Core Workers' Rights and International Trade." - Paris: OECD, 1996.

Otero, Joaquín. - "The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: An Assessment of its First Year's Implementation." - Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 33, no. 3, 1995.

---. "The North American Free Trade Agreement: Overview and Status of Implementation." - Labor Law Development, 41st Annual Institute on Labor Law, Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1995.

Pérez-López, Jorge. - "Implementation of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: A Perspective from the Signatory Countries." - NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas, Vol. 1, no. 4, Autumn 1995.

---. "The Institutional Framework of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation." - U.S.- Mexico Law Journal, no. 3, 1995.

---. "The Promotion of International Labor Standards and NAFTA: Retrospect and Prospects." - Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 1995.

---. "Conflict and Cooperation in U.S.-Mexican Labor Relations: The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation." - Journal of Borderland Studies, Vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1996.

---; Griego, Eric. - "The Labor Dimension of the NAFTA: Reflections on the First Year." - Arizona Journal of International Law and Comparative Law, Vol. 12, no. 2, 1995.

Perret, Louis. - "La solución de controversias en los acuerdos paralelos del TLC."- Resolución de controversias comerciales en América del Norte. - Jorge Witker, ed. - México: UNAM, 1994.

Pier, Carol. - "Labor Rights in Chile and NAFTA Labor Standards: Questions of Compatibility on the Eve of Free Trade." - Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 1998.

Pomeroy, Lauran Okin. - "The Labor Side Agreement Under the NAFTA: Analysis of its Failure to Include Strong Enforcement Provisions and Recommendations for Future Labor Agreement Negotiated with Developing Countries." - The George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics, Vol. 29, no. 3, 1996.

Reza, Ernesto M.; Peake, Lloyd; Dyck, Harold. - "Observations on the Implementation of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: Emerging Issues and Initial Impacts on United States-Mexico Labor Relations." - Journal of Borderland Studies, Vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1996.

Robinson, Ian. - "The NAFTA Labor Accord in Canada: Experience, Prospects, and Alternatives." - Connecticut Journal of International Law, no. 31, 1995.

---. "The NAFTA Labour Accord and the Canadian Labour Movement. - Symposium on International Labor Rights and Standards After NAFTA." - Labor Education Center, Rutgers University, New Jersey: May 2-3, 1996.

Ruhnke, Jill Sanner. - "Impact of NAFTA on Labor Arbitration in Mexico." - Law and Policy in International Business, Vol. 26, 1995, pp. 917-944.

Samford, Clay. - Strange Idea: The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation and Other U.S. Approaches to Enforcing International Labor Standards. - School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1996.

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White, Bob. - "NAFTA Side Deal Changes Nothing for Workers." - CLC Statement, Aug. 25, 1993 [available from CLC, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada].

Williams, Edward J. - "Discord in U.S.-Mexican Labor Relations and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation." - University of Arizona [a paper presented at the seminar "México y su interacción con el sistema político estadounidense"] Mexico City: January 1996.

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