Trade, Employment and Labour Standards : A Study of Core Workers' Rights and International Trade

Trade, Employment and Labour Standards A Study of Core Workers' Rights and International Trade

Recent years have witnessed growing concern over the controversial issue of trade and labour standards. In a context of intensified international competition, alleged cases of child labour exploitation or of denial of rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining in some developing coun...

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Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autores Corporativos: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development Content Provider (content provider), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Content Provider
Otros Autores: Deléchat, Corinne (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 1996.
Materias:
Trade
Employee rights
Foreign trade and employment
Business & Economics
Labor & Workers' Economics
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705621506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Abbreviations
  • Joint Report on Trade, Employment and Labour Standards by the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee and the Trade Committee of the OECD
  • Selection of core labour standards and their implementation
  • Links between core labour standards, trade, economic development and employment
  • Mechanisms to promote core labour standards world-wide
  • Introduction
  • PART I. LABOUR STANDARDS IN OECD AND SELECTED NON-OECD COUNTRIES
  • -Selection of core labour standards
  • ILO Conventions
  • UN provisions on workers’ rights
  • Observance of core labour standards in selected countries
  • PART II. POSSIBLE LINKS BETWEEN CORE LABOUR STANDARDS, TRADE, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT
  • Economic properties of core labour standards
  • Core labour standards and trade performance
  • Core labour standards and trade liberalisation
  • Core labour standards and foreign direct investment
  • Trade, employment and wages 
  • PART III. MECHANISMS TO PROMOTE CORE LABOUR STANDARDS WORLD-WIDE
  • -An overview of the ILO monitoring system
  • The contribution of development co-operation programmes
  • Proposed mechanisms in international organisations
  • Regional and unilateral government actions
  • International standards for the conduct of firms
  • Private party mechanisms
  • Analytical Appendix:  Core Labour Standards, Economic Efficiency and Trade
  • Annex: Methods Applied in Part 11, "Core labour standards and trade liberalisation"
  • Index of compliance with ILO Conventions 87 and 98
  • Indicators of trade liberalisation
  • References

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