Research Catalog

Title

International labor standards : history, theory, and policy options / edited by Kaushik Basu, Henrik Horn, Lisa Román, and Judith Shapiro.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Basu, Kaushik.

Description

xiii, 342 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Labor laws and legislation > Congresses
• Labor policy > Congresses
• Labor laws and legislation, International > Congresses

Note

• Papers based on a conference held in Stockholm in August 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Commentary 3.2. Social Norms, Coordination, and Policy Issues in the Fight Against Child Labor / Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva -- Pt. V. The International Organization and Enforcement of Labor Standards -- Ch. 4. A Role for the WTO / Robert W. Staiger -- Commentary 4.1. Trade and Labor Standards: To Link or Not to Link? / L. Alan Winters -- Commentary 4.2. The Need to Micro-Manage Regulatory Diversity / Petros C. Mavroidis.
• Pt. I. Introduction / Kaushik Basu, Henrik Horn, Lisa Roman and Judith Shapiro -- Pt. II. The Evolution of Labor Standards -- Ch. 1. The History and Political Economy of International Labor Standards / Stanley L. Engerman -- Commentary 1.1. The Parallels Between the Past and the Present / Jane Humphries -- Commentary 1.2. Legislation Versus Bargaining Power: The Evolution of Scandinavian Labor Standards / Karl-Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein -- Pt. III. The Theory of International Labor Standards -- Ch. 2. The Impact of International Labor Standards: A Survey of Economic Theory / Nirvikar Singh -- Commentary 2.1. Old Wine in New Bottles? / T. N. Srinivasan -- Commentary 2.2. Governing Labor Relations / Tore Ellingsen -- Pt. IV. The Issue of Child Labor -- Ch. 3. Child Labor: Theory, Evidence, and Policy / Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern -- Commentary 3.1. The Political Economy of Child Labor / Alan B. Krueger --

ISBN

• 1405105550
• 1405105569 (pbk.)

LCCN

2002006147

OCLC

• ocm49699413
• SCSB-4345768

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries