Chipping Away at the Fortress: Unions, Immigration and the Transnational Labour Market
Chipping Away at the Fortress: Unions, Immigration and the Transnational Labour Market
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攻克堡垒：工会、移民和跨国劳动力市场
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2000
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通讯作者：
Christopher McDonald
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Gamze Avcı;Christopher McDonald
传统的看法认为，在自由的工业化国家，经济衰退和高失业率的时期产生了限制移民立法的压力，这些建议将得到工会的支持，作为维护其利益的手段。本文以英国工会反对1996年《庇护和移民法》为例，认为传统解释认为支持这种保护主义措施的工会实际上站在反对这些措施的前列。我们认为，劳动力市场跨国化的增加，加上立法反应的特殊性质，导致工会采取这一明显自相矛盾的立场。
Conventional wisdom holds that in liberal industrialized countries, times of economic recession and high unemployment create pressures for restrictive immigration legislation, proposals which will be supported by trade unions as a means of safeguarding their interests. Drawing on a case study of British trade union opposition to the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act, this article argues that trade unions, which traditional interpretation suggests support such protectionist measures, are actually at the forefront of opposition to them. We suggest that the increased transnationalization of labour markets, combined with the particular nature of the legislative response, had led unions to adopt this apparently paradoxical position.