Free Trade and Transnational Labour
Title | Free Trade and Transnational Labour PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Bieler |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2016-04-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317678656 |
Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999. While the WTO Doha negotiations have broken down, the EU and USA are increasingly engaged in bilateral free trade agreements, building on this expanded trade agenda. Free trade strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North, especially in manufacturing, have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, since they often imply deindustrialisation. The purpose of this volume is to understand better these dynamics underlying free trade policy-making. Academics, trade union researchers and social movement activists analyse these issues in detail in order to explore possibilities for transnational labour solidarity. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance
Title | Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Smith |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2020-09-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429535775 |
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.
Labour Laws and Global Trade
Title | Labour Laws and Global Trade PDF eBook |
Author | B. A. Hepple |
Publisher | Hart Publishing |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2005-03-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1841131601 |
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the new methods of transnational labour regulation that are emerging in response to globalisation.
Social Dimensions of Free Trade Agreements
Title | Social Dimensions of Free Trade Agreements PDF eBook |
Author | International Labour Organization |
Publisher | International Labor Office |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This report provides a comprehensive review of all existing trade agreements that include social provisions and discusses impacts for enterprises and workers. It also helps assess the challenges for arising from the multiplication of trade agreements that include different social provisions.
Global Governance of Labour Rights
Title | Global Governance of Labour Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Axel Marx |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2015-11-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1784711462 |
Stories and images of collapsed factories, burned down sweatshops, imprisoned migrant workers, child workers and many other violations of internationally recognized labour rights continue to spread across the globe. This highly topical book examines the different instruments which are intended to protect labour rights on a transnational scale, and asks whether they make a difference. With perspectives from law, management, sociology, political science and political economy, the topics discussed include the protection of international labour rights in a globalizing economy, the EU’s social dimension in its external trade relations, Asian and US perspectives on labour rights in international trade agreements, the role of (trade) unions in global labour governance and the transformative capacity of private labour governance regimes. Academics and advanced students from different disciplines will benefit from the up-to-date empirical material in this study. Policymakers, NGOs and Unions will find the discussions of the instruments used to protect labour rights of great value to their work.
Rethinking Free Trade, Economic Integration and Human Rights in the Americas
Title | Rethinking Free Trade, Economic Integration and Human Rights in the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | María Belén Olmos Giupponi |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2017-01-26 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1509904522 |
This monograph offers the first systematic overview of the protection of human rights in trade agreements in the Americas. Traditionally, trade agreements in the Americas were concerned with economic questions and paid little attention to human rights. However, in the wake of the 'new regionalism', which emerged at the end of the last century, more clauses addressing social issues such as labour rights and environmental standards were inserted in trade agreements. As economic integration increased, a framework for the protection of human rights evolved. This book argues that this framework allows for human rights protection on a transnational level, while constructing regional identities. Looking at the four key regional integration processes, namely the Caribbean Community, the Central American Integration System, the Andean Community of Nations and the Southern Common Market, and also at the North American Free Trade Agreement, it shows how the integration process has reached a considerable degree of consolidation. Writing on key sources in English for the first time, this book will be essential reading for all free trade and human rights scholars.
Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements
Title | Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements PDF eBook |
Author | International Labor Office |
Publisher | International Labor Office |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Nearly 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.