Kevin J. Middlebrook

The International Defense of Workers

Labor Rights, U.S. Trade Agreements, and State Sovereignty

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, assessing its efficacy in protecting workers' rights over the entire period it was in effect and demonstrating its broader significance for the role of trade and labor standards in U.S. foreign policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 235mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 896g
• ISBN-13: 9780231213431
• ISBN-10: 0231213433
• Artikelnr.: 69114998

Autorenporträt

Kevin J. Middlebrook

Inhaltsangabe

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
1. The International Defense of Labor Rights: Concepts, Policy Arenas, and
the Challenge of State Sovereignty
2. Pathways to the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: From
Multilateral Proposals to Unilateral Actions Linking Labor Rights and Trade
Agreements
3. Context and Constraints: The Origin and Negotiation of the North
American Free Trade Agreement's Labor Rights Provisions
4. The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation in Principle and in
Practice, 1994-2020
5. Legacies of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: Labor
Rights, U.S. Free-Trade Agreements, and U.S.-Mexican Negotiations over the
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, 2001-2017
6. Renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement: Labor Rights and
the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, 2017-2019
7. Labor Rights, Trade Agreements, State Sovereignty: Past Record and
Future Prospects
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Statistical Analysis of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences
Cases, 1985-1995
Appendix B: Annotated List of NAALC Public Communications Submitted to the
Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. National Administrative Offices (NAOs),
1994-2020
Appendix C: Annotated List of Public Submissions to the U.S. Office of
Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA), 2008-2016
Appendix D: Annotated List of Rapid Response Mechanism Petitions Concerning
Mexico Submitted to the U.S. Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and
Enforcement, 2021-2022
Notes
Bibliography
Index