[Excerpt] My comments here reflect ten degrees of difference. While I mostly agree with him,...

The proliferation of corporate codes of conduct generates both alliance and tension between trade unions...

The proliferation of corporate codes of conduct generates both alliance and tension between trade unions...

[Extract] Early’s vignette about his Miners for Democracy experience sets the stage for an essay...

[Excerpt] A new report by the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center on core labor standards in Mexico...

[Excerpt] Beyond numbers, what unions are doing on the ground reflects their vitality. Unions are...

[Excerpt] This article surveys efforts by governmental and nongovernmental organizations to assess countries' compliance with...

[Excerpt] Labor law in the United States is deeply entrenched against domestic pressure for change,...

[Excerpt] El objeto principal de este artículo consiste en analizar la larga experiencia acumulada al...

[Excerpt] Standing for tolerance, diversity, and dialogue in an otherwise "my-way" society, Yale, Brown, UMass...

Filing lawsuits in U.S. federal and state courts for workers’ rights violations suffered by workers...

[Excerpt] The contributions of Hoyt Wheeler, Julius Getman and David Brody in the December issue...

The rush to core labour standards invites the response that other workers' concerns are not...

Filing lawsuits in U.S. federal and state courts for workers' rights violations suffered by workers...

[Excerpt] With their stress on complexity, contradiction, and flux, these books provide a solid analytical...

[Excerpt] Linking workers' rights to international trade is an idea whose time has come and...

[Excerpt] Fresh information, insightful analysis, and sharp controversy marked presentations by eminent experts and advocates...

[Excerpt]In the fall of 1982, a small group of labor, religious, and human rights activists...

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its supplemental labour pact, the North American...

[Excerpt] What can proponents of liberalized international trade do about barriers to trade erected in...

[Excerpt] The 200-page Human Rights Watch report is based on case studies across a range...

[Excerpt] There are serious tensions between NGOs and trade unions, two major advocates of workers’...

[Excerpt] With Trade Conditions and Labor Rights, Henry J. Frundt makes a signal contribution to...

A culture of near-impunity has taken shape in much of U.S. labor law and practice....

[Extract] Professor Compa spoke about the NAALC and a recent case illustrating the dynamic described...

[Excerpt] In concluding his remarks, Professor Compa outlined what he sees as the major benefits...

[Excerpt] The ideas and insights in Advancing Theory are an important contribution to the on-the-ground...

[Excerpt] A thorough democratization of policy debates and decision-making is a precondition for progress in...

[Excerpt] This essay starts with an anecdote to suggest that foreign direct investment can serve...

[Excerpt] Any number of idealized "social charters" with universal standards and swift, powerful enforcement powers...

"Weak," "toothless," "worthless" and "a farce"—these were some of the epithets applied to the North...

This is a transcript of Professor Lance Compa’s presentation to the North American Agreement on...

This document is a transcript of Professor Lance Compa’s remarks at the January 7, 1995...

[Excerpt] These two books take different routes to the same conclusion: This Time It's For...

[Excerpt] No country or company should gain a commercial edge in international trade by jailing...

[Excerpt] No country or company should gain a commercial edge in international trade by jailing...

This article first reviews initiatives by the international community to address the "linkage" between trade...

[Excerpt] Una empresa transnational por si sola puede conducir una estrategia global, pero la elite...

[Excerpt] Labor rights advocates in the United States and allied organizations abroad attempting to establish...

[Excerpt] This Article seeks to […] articulate a defense of enforceable international labor rights and...

[Excerpt] Migrant labour was the elephant in the room when American, Mexican and Canadian negotiators...

[Excerpt] Fourteen years after the military coup the Chilean people are still seeking the road...

[Excerpt] We should not apologize for U.S. enforcement of the new labor rights laws against...

[Excerpt] For a mainstream sports buff turning 40, golf takes on a new allure. Unexpected,...

[Excerpt] Each leg of a trip to "Chappy," as residents know it, begins with a...

[Excerpt] Granted, there have been complaints about the validity of the unemployment number in the...

[Excerpt] Is OSHA finally enforcing the law after years of laxity? Or, as most activists...

[Excerpt] Contrasts like that mark the French island in the Lesser Antilles chain. Grande-Terre is...

[Excerpt] Most unions are seen as protectionist, and the label is often justified. "Stop Imports"...

[Excerpt] Officialdom's call for labor and management to cooperate is a recurring theme in American...

[Excerpt] Only big, coordinated unions can stop employers from playing off one group of workers...

[Excerpt] There is nothing mysterious about economic conversion. Broadly speaking, it is the transformation of...

[Excerpt] Publicly confessing fidelity is a risky step, hard to do without sounding sanctimonious. The...

[Excerpt] For those of us who are Donald Trump's age, there is a special pleasure...

[Excerpt] Instead of tightening them, the labor movement should be re-examining its links to the...

[Excerpt] The United Electrical Workers union, at Allentown and elsewhere, has tried to develop tactics...

[Excerpt] As the largest airline union and one with a tradition of hard-nosed bargaining, the...

[Excerpt] Most of Randy Barber and Andrew R. Banks' response to our analysis of the...

[Excerpt] At the center of labor's problems is not the Reagan NLRB, but the Taft-Hartley...

[Excerpt] What remains to be seen is whether the labor movement's study of military spending...

[Excerpt] In what direction will all these pressures—the Reagan challenge, employer hostility, and rank-and-file sentiment...

[Excerpt] Ever since the establishment of environmental and workplace protections in the early 1970s, private...

[Excerpt] Today, however, most union leaders are hardly sanguine about the future. Companies are escalating...

This book exposes the violations of human rights witnessed daily in workplaces across the United...

[Excerpt] In the push for a global economy, ensuring human and worker rights is a...

[Excerpt] This volume is the first of a set of comparative guides to labor law...

[Excerpt] Human Rights Watch selected case studies for this report on workers’ freedom of association...

[Excerpt] This study of labor rights in Haiti was conducted on behalf of the International...

[Excerpt] For decades, the U.S. foreign assistance program has sought with limited results to further...

[Excerpt] In a 2002 study, the US Government Accountability Office reported that more than 32...

[Excerpt] This volume is intended to collect the best current scholarship in the new and...

[Excerpt] In the 1990s the parallel but separate tracks of the labor movement and the...

[Excerpt] Without an overall trade agreement containing stronger labour rights linkage than that of the...

[Excerpt] What is most needed is a new spirit of commitment by the labor law...

[Excerpt] Labor rights advocacy is the most direct challenge to the primacy of a marketplace...

[Excerpt] This paper reviews labor rights in the trade arrangements of four regional and binational...

[Excerpt] En este país los sindicatos continúan criticando los puntos débiles del Acuerdo, especialmente la...

[Excerpt] Le climat antisyndical qui a cours aux États-Unis a conduit de grandes enterprises européennes...

[Excerpt] The dispute between the United Food and Commercial Workers and its Local P-9 over...

[Excerpt] This study describes the legal creation of an industry-wide, tripartite collective bargaining structure in...

[Excerpt] This general report considers 23 national reports from colleagues in North America, South America,...

[Excerpt] The move to cheap labor and unregulated enterprise abroad puts an individual firm in...

Transatlantic Economic Relations (TER) was neglected by politi¬cians for much of the twentieth century as...

[Excerpt] A central conclusion of this report is that firms’ voluntary principles and policies are...

Workers in American beef, pork, and poultry slaughtering and processing plants perform dangerous jobs in...

[Excerpt] This report covers workers’ rights in the U.S. meat and poultry industry in three...

[Excerpt] In this report from the Solidarity Center series Justice for All: The Struggle for...