Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade

Lance A. Compa (Edited by), Stephen F. Diamond (Edited by)

9780812218718

Paperback / softback, published 30 August 2003

320 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.478 kg

"Stimulating." (Foreign Affairs) "A significant contribution to current legal, political, and economic discourse on workers in the global economy." (International and Comparative Law Quarterly)

Labor rights have traditionally been a concern of labor law scholars and practitioners whose work concentrates exclusively on domestic developments. In the past decade, however, the globalization of investment and production has expanded the bounds of labor rights discourse.
Contributors to this volume provide the first comprehensive view of labor rights in the international system of commerce. They consider the avenues open to worker rights claims in the global economy under international human rights instruments, U.S. trade laws, free trade agreements, labor rights litigation, and corporate codes of conduct. They address worker rights from the standpoints of human rights concerns, trade and development policy, and labor law principles.