The international defense of workers : labor rights, U.S. trade agreements, and state sovereignty / Kevin J. Middlebrook.
2024
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Title
The international defense of workers : labor rights, U.S. trade agreements, and state sovereignty / Kevin J. Middlebrook.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 572 pages) : illustrations.
Series
Woodrow Wilson Center series.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Summary
"This book examines the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (the NAALC), a "side-agreement" added to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The NAALC is a foundational case in the evolution of debates over the links between trade and labor standards in U.S. foreign policy and a watershed in the international promotion of labor rights. The book investigates the origins of the agreement both in earlier twentieth-century efforts to insert labor provisions into multilateral and U.S. preferential trade agreements and in the 1990-1992 negotiations over the NAFTA; the intense political controversies that arose in 1993 among Canada, Mexico, and the United States over the NAALC's scope and institutional design; how the agreement operated in practice between 1994 and 2020, with attention to its principal successes and failures; and the longer-term policy legacies of the NAALC, including in subsequent U.S. free-trade agreements, the 2017-2019 negotiations over revising the NAFTA, and the labor rights provisions of the successor United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Political scientist Kevin Middlebrook establishes a comparative context for analyzing the NAALC experience by overviewing alternative international arenas for the promotion of worker rights (like cross-border union solidarity actions, initiatives undertaken by the International Labour Organization, and corporate social responsibility campaigns) and by examining the negotiation, content, and implementation of labor rights provisions in the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences program, post-NAFTA U.S. free-trade agreements, and the USMCA, which constitute the principal international examples of the links between trade and labor rights. Most important, the discussion systematically assesses sovereignty leverage as a causal mechanism in two distinct political moments: the negotiation and subsequent implementation of labor rights provisions in trade agreements. He takes an interdisciplinary comparative approach and brings extensive previously unexamined primary research materials to bear in this analysis of international trade agreements and labor rights"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2024).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Middlebrook, Kevin J. International defense of workers New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]
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Language
English
ISBN
9780231559881 electronic book
0231559887 electronic book
9780231213424 hardcover
9780231213431 paperback
0231559887 electronic book
9780231213424 hardcover
9780231213431 paperback
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