Globalization and Labor Conditions
Seiten
2006
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-530600-2 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-530600-2 (ISBN)
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.
This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization - international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies - have altered working conditions and labor rights around the world during the 20th century. Drawing on analyses of a database on international labor conditions assembled for this project and a growing research literature on globalization and labor conditions, the book finds that trade, migration, and multinational companies are associated with improvements in world labor conditions.
This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization - international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies - have altered working conditions and labor rights around the world during the 20th century. Drawing on analyses of a database on international labor conditions assembled for this project and a growing research literature on globalization and labor conditions, the book finds that trade, migration, and multinational companies are associated with improvements in world labor conditions.
1: Introduction
2: Labor Conditions Around the World
3: Economic Development and Labor Conditions
4: Trade and Labor Conditions
5: International Migration and Labor Conditions
6: Multinational Corporations and Labor Conditions
7: National and International Labor Regulation
8: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.8.2006 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 line illus. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 236 x 160 mm |
Gewicht | 539 g |
Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-530600-7 / 0195306007 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-530600-2 / 9780195306002 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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