Incomes and Productivity 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.