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Article: Trade Conditions and Labor Rights: U.S. Initiatives, Dominican and Central American Responses.(Review)
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- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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- January 1, 2000
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Trade Conditions and Labor Rights: U.S. Initiatives, Dominican and Central American Responses. By Henry J. Frundt. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. 286 pp. text + 99 pp. appendices, notes, bibliographies, and indexes. ISBN 0-8130-1621-5, $55.95 (cloth).
With Trade Conditions and Labor Rights, Henry J. Frundt makes a signal contribution to the debate on workers' rights in a rapidly globalizing economy. Can economic pressure by the United States compel poor countries to enhance workers' rights and improve institutions to enforce those rights? Does labor rights "conditionality"--more bluntly, the threat of diminished access to the U.S. market for ...