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E D TED B Y Lance A. Compa and Stephen F. Diamond Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Ttade University of Pennsylvania Press Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Bert B. Lockwood, Jr., Series Editor Professor and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, Univer¬ sity of Cincinnati College of Law Advisory Board Marjorie Agosin Philip Alston Kevin Boyle Richard R Claude David Weissbrodt Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade edited by Lance A. Compa and Stephen F Diamond PENN University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Copyright © 1996 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper First paperback edition 2003 Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4011 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Human rights, labor rights, and international trade / edited by Lance A. Compa and Stephen F. Diamond. p. cm. — (Pennsylvania studies in human rights) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8122-3340-9 (cloth : alk. paper). — ISBN 0-8122-1871-X (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Labor laws and legislation, International—Economic aspects. 2. Human rights—Economic aspects. 3. Commercial policy. I. Compa, Lance A. II. Diamond, Stephen F. III. Series. K1705.4.FI86 1996 341.7'63—dc20 96-1825 CIP Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Lance A. Compa and Stephen F. Diamond Part I: Labor Rights and Human Rights 1. Labor Rights and Human Rights: A Historical Perspective 13 David Montgomery 2. The Paradox of Workers’ Rights as Human Rights 22 Virginia A. Leary 3. Human Rights and Labor Rights: A European Perspective 48 Denis MacShane 4. Labor Rights Provisions in U.S. Trade Law: “Aggressive Unilateralism”? 71 Philip Alston Part II: Labor Rights and Trade 5. In from the Margins: Morality, Economics, and International Labor Rights 99 Stephen Herzenberg vi Contents 6. At the Junction of the Global and the Local: Transnational Industry and Women Workers in the Caribbean 118 Cecilia Green 7. Multinational Enterprises and International Labor Standards: Which Way for Development and Jobs? 141 R. Michael Gadbaw and Michael T. Medwig 8. From Intention to Action: An ILO-GATT/WTO Enforcement Regime for International Labor Rights 163 Daniel S. Ehrenberg 9. Private Labor Rights Enforcement Through Corporate Codes of Conduct 181 Lance A. Compa and Tashia Hinchliffe Darricarrbe 10. Labor Rights in the Global Economy: A Case Study of the North American Free Trade Agreement 199 Stephen F. Diamond Part III: Litigating International Labor Rights 11. International Worker Rights Enforcement: Proposals Following a Test Case 227 Terry Collingsworth 12. The Pico Case: Testing International Labor Rights in U.S. Courts 251 Frank E. Deale 13. The Castro Alfaro Case: Convenience and Justice —Lessons for Lawyers in Transcultural Litigation 273 Emily Yozell Bibliography 293 !ndex 303 List of Contributors 309 Acknowledgments The editors thank Professor Drew Days III and George Andreopoulos, Director and Associate Director respectively of the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, for initiating and sup¬ porting the symposium on human rights, labor rights, and international trade held at Yale Law School in March 1992, and their successors, Professors Harold Koh and Ronald Slye, for continuing to support the publishing of this volume. We also thank student editors Sydney Patel, Victoria Clawson, and Sherry Moore from Yale Law School, Jon Bailey from the Yale School of Management, Misha Cornes and Curt Lambrecht from the Yale Gradu¬ ate School Master’s program in International Relations, and Nicole Duda of the University of Connecticut School of Law. We finally thank our colleagues Joan Paquette-Sass, Jill Tobey, and Renee DeMatteo of the Yale Law School staff, and Mary Mattie and Karen Donegan of the Yale School of Management staff, for their assis¬ tance in preparing the papers for publication.
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