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Strange Bedfellows: How Spanish Labor Union Leaders and Employers Find Common Ground on Immigration
Author(s) -
Watts Julie R.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1998.tb01938.x
Subject(s) - immigration , alliance , political science , immigration policy , perspective (graphical) , state (computer science) , labor union , labour economics , political economy , economics , law , algorithm , artificial intelligence , computer science
The increasing international mobility of labor and the inability of the state to control immigration flows completely have forced labor union leaders to reconsider their attitudes toward immigration from a more global perspective. The result is a tacit alliance between labor leaders and employers in favor of moderately open immigration policies. In Spain, this unusual alliance manifested itself in the 1996 Spanish immigration reform.