From Conflict to Coalition: Profit-Sharing Institutions and the Political Economy of Trade

by Adam Dean

Book Overview

International trade often inspires intense conflict between workers and their employers. In this book, Adam Dean studies the conditions under which labor and capital collaborate in support of the same trade policies. Dean argues that capital-labor agreement on trade policy depends on the presence of 'profit-sharing institutions'. He tests this theory through case studies from the United States, Britain, and Argentina in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316619737
• ISBN13: 9781316619735
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"