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Whose preferences?: Latin American trade promotion pacts as a tool of US foreign policy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2011)
Since 1984, U.S. trade policy holds that all bilateral and multilateral trade agreements include provisions that condition the extension of trade benefits on protecting labor rights. However, few of these clauses have ...
Transnational tensions: network dynamics and local labor rights movements
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2012)
This paper examines the impact of participation in transnational advocacy
networks on local efforts to promote democratic unionization in the garment
export sector in Puebla, Mexico. As such, the work explores the ...
Norms socialization and NAFTA's side accord on labor
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2010)
This paper examines whether one process of norms socialization for human
rights can be applied to labor rights socialization. Using Mexico’s responses
to the cases filed against Mexico under the North American Agreement ...
The effectiveness of trade based clauses in improving labor rights protections: the case of the CAFTA-DR labor clause
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2015)
Trade agreements specify the recourse for violations of trade rules on intellectual property, investors’ rights, or commercial disputes, but the incorporation of social standards like labor guarantees to trade regimes ...
Enforcement by design: the legalization of labor rights mechanisms in US trade policy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2010)
The paper analyzes two trade-based labor rights conditionality clauses —The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), the NAFTA side accord on labor, and the US Generalized System of Preferences program (GSP), ...
Persuasion, coercion and the domestic costs of compliance: evaluating the NAALC resolutions against Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2012)
Why have some of the cases filed under the dispute resolution mechanisms of the NAFTA labor side agreement precipitated changes in labor practices within Mexico, while others have had little or no impact on domestic labor ...