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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 1996-09-09
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9264104887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent years have witnessed growing concern over the controversial issue of trade and labour standards. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of these questions and reviews evidence for a large number of countries throughout the world.
Author: Christian Barry
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008-07-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0231512961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProgressive governments in poor countries fear that if they undertake measures to enhance real wages and working conditions, rising labor costs would cause wealthier countries to import from and invest elsewhere. Yet if the world trading system were designed to facilitate or even reward measures to promote labor standards, poor countries could undertake them without fear. In this book, Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy propose ways in which the international trading system can support poor countries in promoting the well-being of their peoples. Reforms to the trading system can lessen the collective-action problem among poor countries, increasing their freedom to pursue policy that better serves the interests of their people. Incorporating the right kind of linkage between trading opportunities and the promotion of labor standards could empower countries, allowing them greater effective sovereignty and enabling them to improve the circumstances of the less advantaged. Barry and Reddy demonstrate how linkage can be made acceptable to all players, and they carefully defend these ideas against those who might initially disagree. Their volume is accessible to general readers but draws on sophisticated economic and philosophical arguments and includes responses from leading labor activists, economists, and philosophers, including Kyle Bagwell, Robert Goodin, Rohini Hensman, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger.
Author: Kimberly Ann Elliott
Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economics
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study, the authors move beyond the debate on the relative merits and risks of a social clause in trade agreements and focus on practical approaches for improving labour standards in a more intergrated global economy.
Author: International Labor Office
Publisher: International Labor Office
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly half of trade agreements concluded in the past five years included either a labor chapter or labor provision that makes reference to international labor standards and ILO instruments. The evidence so far suggests that labor provisions have been an important tool for raising awareness and improving laws and legislations with respect to workers' rights, increasing stakeholder involvement in negotiation and implementation phases, and developing domestic institutions to better monitor and enforce labor standards. But challenges remain, particularly with respect to sustainability of impacts, coherence, and cooperative efforts. This new report, part of the Studies on Growth with Equity series, gives a full examination of the scope and effectiveness of these labor provisions.
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aneta Tyc
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-12
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780367748012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a set of proposals for how best to guarantee effective enforcement of labour rights worldwide. The linkage between labour standards and global trade has been recurrent for some 200-years. At a time when the world is struggling to find a way out of crisis and is striving for economic growth, more than ever there is a need for up-to-date research on how to protect and promote labour rights in the global economy. This book explores the history of the fi eld and also provides an overview of emerging trends and opportunities. It discusses the most recent problems including: the effectiveness and the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the second century of its existence, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its potential relevance in the protection of labour rights, the effectiveness of the US and the EU Generalised System of Preferences, the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) instruments on labour rights, and labour provisions in the international trade agreements concluded by the US and the EU. The book argues, inter alia, that trade agreements seem to be a useful tool to help pave the way out of the crisis and that the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) can be perceived as a model agreement and a symbol of a shift in perspective from long global supply chains to a focus on regional ones, local production, jobs and a rise in wages. The book will be essential reading for academics and students in the fi elds of human rights law, international labour law, industrial relations law, international sustainable development law, international economic law and international trade law. It will also be of interest to practitioners, non-government organisations (NGOs) and policy makers.
Author: Mr.Stephen S. Golub
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1997-04-01
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1451845537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper reviews controversies regarding linkage of international trade and labor standards. Pressures for international harmonization of labor standards arise in the context of increased trade between countries with large disparities in wages, and also reflect the history of labor standards. A critical distinction is made between standards related to fundamental human rights and those related to employment conditions. The main conclusion is that trade sanctions to enforce labor standards should not be an option, but that international agreements on core labor standards, with voluntary compliance, may, apart from being worthwhile on ethical grounds, defuse calls for protection.
Author: United States. Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: B. A. Hepple
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2005-03-25
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1841131601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of the new methods of transnational labour regulation that are emerging in response to globalisation.
Author: Michael Huberman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-05-29
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0300158769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labor standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labor and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more competitively a country can participate on the global stage. But in this book the distinguished economic historian Michael Huberman demonstrates that globalization has in fact been very good for workers’ quality of life, and that improved labor conditions have promoted globalization.
