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Labor Rights and Labor Standards in International Trade
(1993-10-01)[Excerpt] This Article seeks to […] articulate a defense of enforceable international labor rights and labor standards as part of a trade, investment and development strategy that will benefit whole societies, not just ... -
Labor Rights for All? The Role of Undocumented Immigrant Status for Worker Claims Making
(2010-01-01)Drawing on forty-one interviews with both documented and undocumented Latino restaurant workers in San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas, this article examines how documentation status shapes the legal consciousness of ... -
Labor Rights in Haiti
(1989-04-01)[Excerpt] This study of labor rights in Haiti was conducted on behalf of the International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund by Lance Compa, Washington Representative of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine ... -
Labor Rights in the Generalized System of Preferences: A 20-Year Review
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt]In the fall of 1982, a small group of labor, religious, and human rights activists began charting a new course for human rights and workers' rights in American trade policy. The principles of these labor rights ... -
Labor Standards, Economic Development, and International Trade
(1990-01-01)[Excerpt] Higher real earnings at the fullest possible level of employment are the goals of those of us who work in the labor field. This paper addresses the role of labor standards in helping to achieve those goals. The ... -
Labor, Management, and Government Interactions
(2015-01-01)[Excerpt] Labor, management, and government engage in complex interactions in emerging countries, and these interactions strongly influence the evolution of labor relations in those countries. For example, unions and other ... -
Laborers or Criminals? The Impact of Crimmigration on Labor Standards Enforcement
(2014-01-01)[Excerpt] As we examine the criminalization of immigration, commonly referred to as “crimmigration” (Stumpf, 2006), it is essential to consider its impact on other areas of law and policy that involve immigrants but are ... -
Laboring for Unity
(1988-03-01)[Excerpt] Fourteen years after the military coup the Chilean people are still seeking the road back to democracy. Yet finding that road requires a strong, democratic, united labor movement voicing the aspirations of working ... -
Labor’s New Opening to International Human Rights Standards
(2008-03-01)Most trade unionists were oblivious to international human rights movement in the last half of the twentieth century. For their part, human rights advocates did not include workers’ rights on their agenda. But in the late ... -
Labor’s Weight Beyond Its Numbers
(2003-07-20)[Excerpt] Beyond numbers, what unions are doing on the ground reflects their vitality. Unions are allying with new grass-roots support groups in creative public advocacy for workers' rights generally, not just for their ... -
Labour Institutions and Economic Development: A Conceptual Framework With Reference to Asia
(1994-01-01)[Excerpt] In this chapter, I set forth a framework for analysing how labour markets function under existing institutional arrangements and predicting how they would respond to alternative changes and policy interventions. ... -
Labour Market Dualism in the Lewis Model: Reply
(2006-06-01)Excerpt] Richard Brown (2006) has written that the interpretation of the 1954 Lewis model that I presented in Fields (2004) is ‘flawed for a number of reasons’ and ‘Fields’s appreciation of the contribution of the Lewis ... -
Labour Market Modelling and the Urban Informal Sector: Theory and Evidence
(1990-01-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this paper is to assess the compatibility between theoretical models of the urban informal sector (UIS) and empirical evidence on the workings of that sector in the context of developing countries' ... -
Labour Migration in Southern and Eastern England, 1861-1901
(1997-08-01)This paper examines the determinants of migration from 19 southern counties to six major destinations in England and Wales from 1861-70 to 1891-1900. I find that, while the size of origin-destination wage gaps and the ... -
Labour Rights in the FTAA
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] Without an overall trade agreement containing stronger labour rights linkage than that of the NAALC model, advocates will have no central forum or mechanism for dealing with workers' rights in the Americas. This ... -
Large Firm Industrial Relations at the Crossroads
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] The studies in this volume focus heavily on industrial relations in large firms in Korea. This focus is appropriate, since a significant percentage of Korea’s roughly 1.5 million union members are employed in ... -
Last Lecture
(2008-09-01)The “Last Lecture” was written in February 2004 for presentation at Mortarboard’s March 2004 annual “Last Lecture” series. Mortarboard is a national undergraduate honor society and each year it sponsors a last lecture ... -
Lasting Victories: Successful Union Strategies for Winning First Contracts
(1996-01-01)[Excerpt] These studies leave no doubt that employers have at their disposal a myriad of legal and illegal tactics which they can use to effectively block union efforts at winning a first agreement. The critical question ... -
Lay People's Beliefs About Creativity: Evidence for an Insight Bias
(Elsevier, 2022-01)Research finds that creative ideas are generated by two cognitive pathways: insight and persistence. However, emerging research suggests people’s lay beliefs may not adequately reflect both routes. We propose that people ... -
Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance
(1998-09-01)This paper examines the connection between layoffs, executive pay, and stock prices. Firms that announce layoffs in the previous year pay their CEOs more, and give their CEOs larger percentage raises than firms which do ...
