"Neo x neo": o papel da transnacionalização sindical nos debates teóricos das Relações Internacionais na década de 1970

Abstract

The article aims to understand and localize some historically academic debates of International Relations around the phenomenon of transnationalization of labor relations which occurred in the 70’s. Specifically, the study is going to be placed on the unions’ transnationalization, in two specific debates: the (neo) realism and the (neo) liberalism, with the backdrop of some memorable events as the deténte of East-West relations in the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Bretton Woods, the New Industrialized Countries (NICs) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Having addressed the two paradigms, at a second stage and under the auspices of neo-liberal literature, we are going to discuss some issues which enrich this debate: universality / relativity; spillover / exclusion and sovereignty / intervention. At the end of the article, we will try to demonstrate the effective internationalization of the labor demands (BASF case), which occurred at the period (70’s). The method used is inductive. Based on a real case, we will formulate conclusions that we believe free of formulated conclusions.