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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483965703321

Autore

Addo Kofi

Titolo

Core Labour Standards and International Trade : Lessons from the Regional Context / / by Kofi Addo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

9783662446195

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxvii, 330 p.)

Classificazione

44.44

20.12.08

Disciplina

338.9

340

341.2422

343.07

Soggetti

International law

Trade

Development economics

Business ethics

Law—Europe

International Economic Law, Trade Law

Development Economics

Business Ethics

European Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The Global Debate – The Linkage Between Labour Standards and International Trade -- 3. The History of Core Labour Standards -- 4. Legal Analysis: CLS, International Law and the Process and Production Method Argument -- 5. Unilateral Social Clauses -- 6. Regional Trade Agreements and the Interface between Labour Standards and International Trade -- 7. Regional Trade Agreements and Labour Provisions -- 8. The Impact of Regional Trade Agreements on the Labour-Trade Debate -- 9. Conclusion and Recommendations.



Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the labour standards provisions in a number of Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements, and assesses the potential of using the relevant clauses in these trade agreements as a benchmark for a multilateral approach. Based on the lessons learned from the Regional model, the book proposes a Global Labour and Trade Framework Agreement (GLTFA) combined with a joint ILO/WTO enforcement mechanism to resolve the contentious issue of the link between the CLS and international trade. The history of the linkage between the Core Labour Standards (CLS) and international trade dates back roughly 150 years, and has recently become one of the most vexing issues facing policy-makers. At the heart of the debate is the question whether or not trade sanctions should be imposed on countries that do not respect the CLS as embodied in multilateral conventions administered by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Concretely, this would entail inserting a social clause in the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, and would trigger the imposition of sanctions on those countries that do not adhere to the CLS.  Kofi Addo is a policy advisor to the Board of Governors of the International Baccalaureate Organisation. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Bern, Switzerland.    .