Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
It is a brute fact of contemporary globalization - unmistakable as activists and journalists catalog scandal after scandal – that the very transformations making possible higher quality, cheaper products often lead to unacceptable conditions of work: brutal use of child labor, dangerous environments, punishingly long days, starvation wages, discrimination, suppression of expression and association. In all quarters, the question is not whether to address these conditions, but how.
Recommended Citation
Charles F. Sabel, Archon Fung & Dara O'Rourke,
Ratcheting Labor Standards: Regulation for Continuous Improvement in the Global Workplace,
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Paper No. RWP00-010
(2001).
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