Author: Baatlhodi Molatlhegi
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Gerda van Roozendaal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135842736
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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As the world economy is liberalized, and national economies become more intertwined, the national decision making of states is also increasingly interdependent, and it has become vital for non-governmental organizations to create an international agenda. This title is an important study of what makes such organizations successful on an international level. The focus is on trade unions, as a key international group of NGOs. It asks whether a global system can be designed to stimulate countries to observe a set of minimum or core standards. It explores three important questions: how have unions attempted to influence the debate on the inclusion of minumum labour standards in the WTO agreement?; what accounts for their success or lack of success?; and what conclusions, with respect to the effective behaviour of trade unions in the construction of international policy, can be drawn from these experiences? In exploring these questions the text looks at social clause debates within a number of international bodies: the ILO, OECD and the EU, and within two countries: the USA and India.

Author: Robert Howse
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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Author: Stephen Woolcock
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Category : Labour laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Gerda van Roozendaal
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Author: Adrian Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429535775
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour, this book looks at the impact of the EU’s ‘new generation’ free trade agreements on workers. Drawing upon extensive original research, including over 200 interviews with key actors across the EU and its trading partners, it considers the effectiveness of the trade-labour linkage in an era of global value chains. The EU believes trade can work for all, claiming that labour provisions in its free trade agreements ensure that economic growth and high labour standards go hand-in-hand. Yet whether these actually make a difference to workers is strongly contested. This book explains why labour provisions have been profoundly limited in the EU’s agreements with the CARIFORUM group, South Korea and Moldova. It also shows how the provisions were mismatched with the most pressing workplace concerns in the key export industries of sugar, automobiles and clothing, and how these concerns were exacerbated by the agreements’ commercial provisions. This pioneering approach to studying the trade-labour linkage provides insights into key debates on the role of civil society in trade governance, the relationship between public and private labour regulation, and the progressive possibilities for trade policy in the twenty-first century. This book will appeal to research scholars, post-graduate students, trade policy practitioners, policy researchers allied to labour movements, and informed activists.

Author: Daniel De Leon
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Marion Jansen
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ISBN: 9789221253211
Category : Foreign trade and employment
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Robert Howse
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Joy Elmer Morgan
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Category : Debates and debating
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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