From Conflict to Coalition

Adam Dean is an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at George Washington University, Washington DC. He specializes in international relations with a focus on international political economy. His research interests include the political economy of trade, labor politics, and American political development. He earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

• 1. Introduction; 2. A theory of profit-sharing institutions; 3. Evidence and research design; 4. The gilded wage; 5. Liberalized by labor; 6. Trade politics in Britain and Argentina; 7. Power over profits; 8. Conclusion.

'From Conflict to Coalition is an important and original book in which Adam Dean decisively advances scholarly understanding of the political economy of globalization. Drawing on meticulous research for a series of elegantly constructed case studies, Dean examines the conditions under which organized labour comes to share or dissent from the international trade policy preferences of employers. The result is a major scholarly publication, which will be of interest to researchers in economic history, American political development, and international political economy.' Desmond King, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, University of Oxford