Articles
A Strange Case, Articles & Chapters (2010)
[Excerpt] The disconnect reflected in Bosch's action at the Wisconsin plant between promise and performance...
Still Unjaded: Jim Atleson’s Twenty-first Century Turn to International Labor Law, Articles & Chapters (2009)
[Excerpt] I came late to the academy and am still more of a trade unionist...
Should Labor Defend Worker Rights as Human Rights? A Debate (with Jay Youngdahl), Articles & Chapters (2009)
The authors debate the relative merits and drawbacks of defining the labor movement under the...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Workers’ Rights, Articles & Chapters (2008)
[Excerpt] Corporate social responsibility (CSR) brings an important dimension to the global economy. CSR can...
Labor’s New Opening to International Human Rights Standards, Articles & Chapters (2008)
Most trade unionists were oblivious to international human rights movement in the last half of...
Books
Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards, Book Samples (2005)
This book exposes the violations of human rights witnessed daily in workplaces across the United...
Justice for All: A Guide to Worker Rights in the Global Economy (2003)
[Excerpt] In the push for a global economy, ensuring human and worker rights is a...
L ABOR RE LATIONS LAW IN NORTH AMERICA (2000)
[Excerpt] This volume is the first of a set of comparative guides to labor law...
Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards, Articles & Chapters (2000)
[Excerpt] Human Rights Watch selected case studies for this report on workers’ freedom of association...
Labor Rights in Haiti, Monographs (1989)
[Excerpt] This study of labor rights in Haiti was conducted on behalf of the International...
Contributions to Books
Legal Protection of Workers’ Human Rights: Regulatory Changes and Challenges in the United States, Articles & Chapters (2010)
[Excerpt] In a 2002 study, the US Government Accountability Office reported that more than 32...
Introduction to Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations: International and Domestic Perspectives (with James A. Gross), Articles & Chapters (2009)
[Excerpt] This volume is intended to collect the best current scholarship in the new and...
Trade Unions and Human Rights, Articles & Chapters (2008)
[Excerpt] In the 1990s the parallel but separate tracks of the labor movement and the...
Labour Rights in the FTAA, Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] Without an overall trade agreement containing stronger labour rights linkage than that of the...
Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States: The Gap Between Ideals and Practice, Articles & Chapters (2003)
[Excerpt] What is most needed is a new spirit of commitment by the labor law...
Unpublished Papers
A Second Look at the Hormel Strike, Working Papers (1986)
[Excerpt] The dispute between the United Food and Commercial Workers and its Local P-9 over...
Labor Law and the Legal Way: Collective Bargaining in the Chilean Textile Industry under the Unidad Popular, Working Papers (1973)
[Excerpt] This study describes the legal creation of an industry-wide, tripartite collective bargaining structure in...
Presentations
Trade Liberalization and Labour Law, Conference Proceedings, Presentations, and Speeches (2006)
[Excerpt] This general report considers 23 national reports from colleagues in North America, South America,...
American Trade Unions and NAFTA, Conference Proceedings, Presentations, and Speeches (1994)
[Excerpt] The move to cheap labor and unregulated enterprise abroad puts an individual firm in...
Other
A Social Dimension for Transatlantic Economic Relations (with Henning Meyer), Research Studies and Reports (2010)
Transatlantic Economic Relations (TER) was neglected by politi¬cians for much of the twentieth century as...
A Strange Case: Violations of Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States by European Multinational Corporations, Articles & Chapters (2010)
[Excerpt] A central conclusion of this report is that firms’ voluntary principles and policies are...
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers' Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants (2005)
Workers in American beef, pork, and poultry slaughtering and processing plants perform dangerous jobs in...
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants, Articles & Chapters (2004)
[Excerpt] This report covers workers’ rights in the U.S. meat and poultry industry in three...