Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade

Lance A Compa

ISBN 10: 081221871X / ISBN 13: 9780812218718

Published by University Of Pennsylvania Press Aug 2003, 2003

About this Item

Neuware - Contributors to Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade provide the first comprehensive view of labor rights in the international trade system and 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. Developments in the global economy - including the European Union and the ILO; NAFTA; GATT and the new WTO; and the Japanese organization of the Pacific Rim - create issues regarding migration patterns, resource conservation and environmental protection, foreign policy, and labor. Combining the rarefied atmosphere of human rights theory with the nitty-gritty details of worker organizing, this book addresses the issue of distinguishing which worker and trade union rights are fundamental human rights and which are really assertions of privileges or claims for benefits.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press Aug 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081221871X
• ISBN 13: 9780812218718
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 161H x 21D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 463 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Lance A. Compa is a senior lecturer at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Stephen F. Diamond teaches law at the Santa Clara University School of Law.