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European unions and the repoliticization of transnational capital: labor's stance regarding the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)

Sacha Dierckx (UGent)
(2015) LABOR HISTORY. 56(3). p.327-344
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This article argues that labor and social movements should repoliticize the transnationalization of capital in production and finance. The neoliberal era has demonstrated the power asymmetry between global capital and national labor. It seems that academics, trade unions, and progressive politicians have accepted this upscaling of capital to the global level as an irreversible fact that cannot be challenged. This article claims that progressive labor and social movements should, first, repoliticize the power of global capital and, second, try to scale down capital. The article studies three cases from the European Union to examine whether trade unions are trying to repoliticize, and succeeding in repoliticizing, global capital’s power. It is concluded that repoliticizing and challenging the power of transnational capital is not impossible, but not easy either, and that trade unions need to focus more on these struggles.
Keywords
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), transnationalization, neoliberalism, POLICY, STATES, CRISIS, GOVERNANCE, NEOLIBERALISM, COMPETITIVENESS, capital, capital controls, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), labor, SCALE

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Dierckx, Sacha. “European Unions and the Repoliticization of Transnational Capital: Labor’s Stance Regarding the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).” LABOR HISTORY, vol. 56, no. 3, 2015, pp. 327–44, doi:10.1080/0023656X.2015.1042776.
APA
Dierckx, S. (2015). European unions and the repoliticization of transnational capital: labor’s stance regarding the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). LABOR HISTORY, 56(3), 327–344. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2015.1042776
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Dierckx, Sacha. 2015. “European Unions and the Repoliticization of Transnational Capital: Labor’s Stance Regarding the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).” LABOR HISTORY 56 (3): 327–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2015.1042776.
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Dierckx, Sacha. 2015. “European Unions and the Repoliticization of Transnational Capital: Labor’s Stance Regarding the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).” LABOR HISTORY 56 (3): 327–344. doi:10.1080/0023656X.2015.1042776.
Vancouver
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Dierckx S. European unions and the repoliticization of transnational capital: labor’s stance regarding the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). LABOR HISTORY. 2015;56(3):327–44.
IEEE
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S. Dierckx, “European unions and the repoliticization of transnational capital: labor’s stance regarding the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA),” LABOR HISTORY, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 327–344, 2015.
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