International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage

by Christian Barry and Sanjay Reddy

Book Overview

Progressive governments in poor countries fear that if they undertake measures to enhance real wages and working conditions, rising labor costs would cause wealthier countries to import from and invest elsewhere. Yet if the world trading system were designed to facilitate or even reward measures to promote labor standards, poor countries could undertake them without fear.

In this book, Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy propose ways in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231140487
• ISBN13: 9780231140485
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"