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Article: Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade.
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- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Edited by Lance A. Compa and Stephen F. Diamond. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996, 311 pp. $39.95.
The Compa-Diamond book addresses questions of labor law and labor rights in the context of the global economy--a context to which the practice of labor law is unaccustomed, and for which no clear venue exists. True, ILO (International Labour Organization) has formulated numerous standards for worker rights and working conditions, but while the great majority of nations are members, its conventions have frequently not been ratified. Even where they have been ratified, ILO, having no enforcement powers, must depend upon the parties to ratification ...