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Mural
detail: "Pan-American Unity" at the City College of San
Francisco, Diego Rivera
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With
the Spring 2001 series "Development, Labor Standards, and
Economic Integration in the Americas," CLAS aimed to generate
dialogue around the role of labor standards in the context of
development and economic integration throughout the Americas
and further the ongoing debate over trade and the global economy.
Participants examined global forces, local contexts, and political
realities. Funding provided by the Ford Foundation.
Stan
Gacek
Friday, February 16, 9:30 am
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Stanley Gacek, J.D., is currently the AFL-CIO's Assistant Director for
International Affairs, with responsibility for the U.S. labor federation's
policy in Latin
America and the Caribbean. Prior to this position, he was Assistant General
Counsel to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and,
during the 1980s, he served as the effective contact in the U.S. labor
movement for both the Brazilian CUT and PT. He is the author of "Revisiting the Corporatist
and Contractualist Models of Labor Law Regimes: A Review of the Brazilian
and American Systems" (Cardozo Law Review, 1994) and Sistemas
de Relações de Trabalho Ý Exame dos Modelos Brasil-Estados
Unidos (1994).
Analysis
and commentary of this event by Catha Worthman with comments
by Stan Gacek.
Liliane
Fiuza Lima
"Child Labor in Brazil"
Friday, February 16, 2 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Liliane Fiuza is a noted activist and expert on child labor. She was the
organizer for the Global March Against Child Labor, and she is a consultant
on child labor issues to the national labor union centrals in Brazil. In
1998, she was a delegate to the International Labor Organization conference
on conventions relating to child labor. She has also conducted numerous seminars
and public forums concerning child labor throughout Latin America and Europe.
Beginning next year, she will work as the Director for the International
Center on Child Labour and Education, the Global March Against Child Labor
office in Washington, D.C.
Analysis
and commentary of this event by Catha Worthman.
Professor
Samuel Valenzuela
"Labor, Democratic Transition, and Neo-Liberal Policy Environments: The Case
of Chile"
Thursday, March 15, 3 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
J. Samuel Valenzuela is currently a professor of Sociology at the University
of Notre Dame. His publications have focused on comparative labor movements,
democratization and political party formation (especially in Chile), redemocratization
out of authoritarian rule, and social change and development. He is the author
of Democratización vía reforma: La expansión del
sufragio en Chile (1985; second revised edition forthcoming), and co-author of Chile:
a Country Study (1994). He has also co-edited Issues in Democratic
Consolidation. The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective (1992).
In December 1999 he served as an advisor to Ricardo Lagos' second-round presidential
campaign in Chile, and he returned to Santiago from May to July, 2000, as a
consultant for labor law reform to the new Lagos government.
Analysis and commentary
of this event by Andrea Ruiz-Esquide with comments by Samuel Valenzuela.
Special
Seminar
Enrique Dussel Peters
"Socioeconomic Challenges During Mexico's Transition"
Fridays in April, 2001, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
(April 6, 13, and 20)
CLAS conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
CLAS Visiting Scholar Enrique Dussel Peters is a professor of economics
at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) and a
consultant for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(CEPAL).
He was a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI)
from 1997 to 2000, and is the author of numerous articles and books
on the political economy of Mexico, social effects of economic change,
and
Nafta. Recent books include Polarizing Mexico. The Impact of Liberalization
Strategy (2000); El Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica
y el desempeño de la economía en México (2000);
and Changes in Industrial Organization of the Mexican Automobile
Industry by Economic Liberalization (1997, with Clemente Ruiz
Durán
and Taeko Taniura).
This class covered the historical and conceptual path to liberalization
strategy; macroeconomic sectoral and social effects of the liberalization
strategy; and the industrial organization and territorial development:
the case of electronics in Jalisco.
COURSE SYLLABUS and
ADDITIONAL READINGS
View
PowerPoint slides from Sessions 2 and 3 of the course.
Public Lecture:
"Economic Challenges of the New Fox Administration in Mexico"
Thursday, April 12, 4 pm
CLAS conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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