Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

328 Pages·2003·12.402 MB·English

by  Lance A. Compa (Editor), Stephen F. Diamond

E D TED B Y
Lance A. Compa and Stephen F. Diamond

Human Rights, Labor Rights,
and International Ttade
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Bert B. Lockwood, Jr., Series Editor
Professor and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, Univer¬
sity of Cincinnati College of Law
Advisory Board
Marjorie Agosin
Philip Alston
Kevin Boyle
Richard R Claude
David Weissbrodt
Human Rights,
Labor Rights, and
International Trade
edited by
Lance A. Compa and
Stephen F Diamond
PENN
University of Pennsylvania Press
Philadelphia
Copyright © 1996 University of Pennsylvania Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
First paperback edition 2003
Published by
University of Pennsylvania Press
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Human rights, labor rights, and international trade / edited by Lance A. Compa and
Stephen F. Diamond.
p. cm. — (Pennsylvania studies in human rights)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8122-3340-9 (cloth : alk. paper). — ISBN 0-8122-1871-X (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Labor laws and legislation, International—Economic aspects. 2. Human
rights—Economic aspects. 3. Commercial policy. I. Compa, Lance A. II. Diamond,
Stephen F. III. Series.
K1705.4.FI86 1996
341.7'63—dc20 96-1825
CIP
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Lance A. Compa and Stephen F. Diamond
Part I: Labor Rights and Human Rights
1. Labor Rights and Human Rights: A Historical Perspective 13
David Montgomery
2. The Paradox of Workers’ Rights as Human Rights 22
Virginia A. Leary
3. Human Rights and Labor Rights: A European Perspective 48
Denis MacShane
4. Labor Rights Provisions in U.S. Trade Law:
“Aggressive Unilateralism”? 71
Philip Alston
Part II: Labor Rights and Trade
5. In from the Margins: Morality, Economics, and
International Labor Rights 99
Stephen Herzenberg
vi Contents
6. At the Junction of the Global and the Local:
Transnational Industry and Women Workers in the Caribbean 118
Cecilia Green
7. Multinational Enterprises and International Labor
Standards: Which Way for Development and Jobs? 141
R. Michael Gadbaw and Michael T. Medwig
8. From Intention to Action: An ILO-GATT/WTO
Enforcement Regime for International Labor Rights 163
Daniel S. Ehrenberg
9. Private Labor Rights Enforcement Through Corporate
Codes of Conduct 181
Lance A. Compa and Tashia Hinchliffe Darricarrbe
10. Labor Rights in the Global Economy: A Case Study
of the North American Free Trade Agreement 199
Stephen F. Diamond
Part III: Litigating International Labor Rights
11. International Worker Rights Enforcement:
Proposals Following a Test Case 227
Terry Collingsworth
12. The Pico Case: Testing International Labor Rights
in U.S. Courts 251
Frank E. Deale
13. The Castro Alfaro Case: Convenience and Justice —Lessons
for Lawyers in Transcultural Litigation 273
Emily Yozell
Bibliography 293
!ndex 303
List of Contributors 309
Acknowledgments
The editors thank Professor Drew Days III and George Andreopoulos,
Director and Associate Director respectively of the Schell Center for
International Human Rights at Yale Law School, for initiating and sup¬
porting the symposium on human rights, labor rights, and international
trade held at Yale Law School in March 1992, and their successors,
Professors Harold Koh and Ronald Slye, for continuing to support the
publishing of this volume.
We also thank student editors Sydney Patel, Victoria Clawson, and
Sherry Moore from Yale Law School, Jon Bailey from the Yale School of
Management, Misha Cornes and Curt Lambrecht from the Yale Gradu¬
ate School Master’s program in International Relations, and Nicole
Duda of the University of Connecticut School of Law.
We finally thank our colleagues Joan Paquette-Sass, Jill Tobey, and
Renee DeMatteo of the Yale Law School staff, and Mary Mattie and
Karen Donegan of the Yale School of Management staff, for their assis¬
tance in preparing the papers for publication.