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Globalization and labor conditions : working conditions and worker rights in a global economy / Robert J. Flanagan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flanagan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor policy.
- Labor.
- Labor laws and legislation, International.
- Employee rights.
- Industrial welfare.
- Foreign trade and employment.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explains how three mechanisms of globalization - international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies - have altered working conditions around the world during the 20th century. This book finds that trade migration, and multinational companies are associated with improvements in world labor conditions.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Labor conditions around the world
- Economic development and labor conditions
- Trade and labor conditions
- International migration and labor conditions
- Multinational corporations and labor conditions
- National and international labor regulation
- Taking stock and looking ahead.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-243) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029428-0
- 1-280-55934-9
- 1-4294-0303-9
- 9786610559343
- 0-19-804173-X
- OCLC:
- 71801544
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