Edur Velasco Arregui & Richard Roman 
Continental Crucible [PDF ebook] 
Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America, Second Edition

Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective. This book also illustrates the ways in which the capitalist classes in Canada, Mexico and the United States used free trade agreements to consolidate their agendas and organise themselves continentally. The failure of traditional labour responses to stop the continental offensive being waged by big business has led workers and unions to explore new strategies of struggle and organisation.