Human Rights and Labor Solidarity: Trade Unions in the Global Economy

by Susan L. Kang

Faced with the economic pressures of globalization, many countries have sought to curb the fundamental right of workers to join trade unions and engage in collective action. In response, trade unions in developed countries have strategically used their own governments' commitments to human rights as a basis for resistance. Since the protection of human rights remains an important normative principle in global affairs, democratic countries cannot...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244109
• ISBN13: 9780812244106
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.3"