North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: A Non-Governmental View

This speech given to the Conference on Social Clauses and Environmental Standards in International Trade Agreements highlights the gap between free trade agreements and labor standards, with a particular focus on the North American Free Trade Agreement

Rut Tufts, an Indispensable Friend (Remarks on Death of Rut Tufts at June 15, 2006 FLA Board of Directors Meeting)

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.  Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_Remarks_Rut_Tufts.pdf: 45 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Developing Effective Mechanisms for Implementing Labor Rights in the Global Economy

The paper explains that workers in different countries are not adversaries and no actual conflict of interest exists between them. It contends that a raise in global wages will benefit workers worldwide. However, this growth in the global economy will not happen if workers in the U.S. and Europe, whose high wages fuel global demand for consumer goods, are losing their jobs to workers who earn subsistence wages

U.S. GSP Labor Rights Conditionality: “Aggressive Unilateralism” OR a Forerunner to a Multilateral Social Clause?

The paper examines the impact that the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) has had on the world economy

Rut Tufts, an Indispensable Friend (Remarks on Death of Rut Tufts at June 15, 2006 FLA Board of Directors Meeting)

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.  Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_Remarks_Rut_Tufts.pdf: 45 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Ending the Commerical Exploitation of Children: Testimony before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus

ILRF_ChildExploitationHarvey.pdf: 34 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Crucifixion at Easter: The Redemptive Death of a 12-Year Old Boy

ILRF_CrucifixtionIqbal.pdf: 210 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Workers in the Global Economy

[Excerpt] The Workers in the Global Economy project is part of a growing international labor rights movement. This movement brings together researchers, policy analysts, and advocates in trade unions and allied NGOs who want to make social justice the touchstone of an integrated international economy. Participants in the WGE project hope it contributes new understanding of the global economy and how it affects workers. More important, we hope that it gives labor rights advocates tools to change the effects of globalization on working people around the world.Compa167_Workers_in_the_Global_Economy.pdf: 182 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Guaranteed Manufactured without Child Labor: The Economics of Consumer Boycotts, Social Labeling and Trade Sanctions

Does labeling products "Child-Labor Free" provide a market-based solution to the pervasive employment of child labor? This paper explores the promise of social labeling in the context of its four oft-noted objectives: child labor employment, consumer information, welfare, and trade linkages, when competition between the North and South is based both on comparative cost advantage, and the use of child labor as a hidden product attribute. We show that (i) social labeling benefits consumers and Southern producers, whereas children and Northern producers are worse off; (ii) trade sanctions on unlabeled products deteriorates Southern terms of trade, but leaves the incidence of child labor strictly unaffected; and (iii) a threat to sanction imports of unlabeled Southern products discourages the South from maintaining a credible social labeling program. We also explore the question of whether social labeling should be viewed as a transitory or a permanent institution in developing economies. Copyright � 2006 The Authors; Journal compilation � 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.