Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 1999
Keywords
Globalization, Free trade, Labor standards, Regional trading blocs, European Union, EU, North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, Mercosur, Asian Pacific Economic Corporation, APEC, Legal pluralism, Trade conditionality
Disciplines
International Trade Law | Labor and Employment Law | Transnational Law
Abstract
This Article explores the possibilities for effective protection of labor rights in the emerging global labor market. It explores existing forms of transnational labor regulation, including both hard regulation, i.e., regulation by state-centered institutions, and soft regulation, i.e., regulation through private actors responding to market forces. The author finds that existing regulatory approaches are inadequate to ensure that the global marketplace will offer adequate labor standards to its global workforce. She proposes new approaches to global labor regulation, approaches that blend hard and soft law by reshaping market forces and embedding them in a regulatory framework that is protective of core labor rights.
Recommended Citation
Stone, Katherine V.W., "To the Yukon and Beyond: Local Laborers in a Global Market" (1999). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 1604.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/1604
Publication Citation
Katherine Van Wezel Stone, "To the Yukon and Beyond: Local Laborers in a Global Market," 3 Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law 93 (1999)
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