Review Essays
Topical Foci: Globalization & Human Rights
Enslaved to Fashion: Corporations, Consumers, and the Campaign for Worker Rights in the Global Economy by George DeMartino
Levi's Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace by Karl Schoenberger. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. 288pp.
Feeling the Heat of Human Rights Branding: Bringing Transnational Corporations within the International Human Rights Fence By Robert McCorquodale
Human Rights Standards and the Responsibility of Transnational Corporations edited by Michael K. Addo. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999. 384pp.
Globalism, Human Rights and the Problem of Individualism By Richard McIntyre
Global Economy, Global Justice: Theoretical Objections and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism by George F. DeMartino. New York: Routledge, 2000. 296 pp.
Politics, Pragmatism and Human Rights By Todd Landman
Human Rights Horizons: The Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World by Richard A. Falk. New York: Routledge, 2000. 288pp.
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry by Michael Ignatieff (edited by Amy Guttman). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 187pp.
Can World Poverty be Eliminated? By William F. Felice
World Poverty: New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy edited by Peter Townsend and David Gordon. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2002. 454pp.
World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms by Thomas Pogge. Malden, MA: Blackwell/Polity, 2002. 264pp.
There is an Alternative: Subsistence and Worldwide Resistance to Corporate Globalization edited by Veronica Benholdt-Thomsen, Nicholas Faraclas, and Claudia von Werlhof. New York: Zed Books. 2001. 288pp.
Building a Better World By Pierre Landell-Mills
The Global New Deal: Economic and Social Rights in World Politics by William Felice. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 204pp.
Global Economic Forces and Individual Labor Rights: An Uneasy Coexistence By Alice de Jonge
Workers’ Rights as Human Rights edited by James A. Gross. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. 272pp.
International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade, and Public Policy edited by Robert J. Flanagan and William B. Gould IV. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. 275pp.
Globalizing Democracy or Democratizing Globalism? By Matthew S. Weinert
Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings edited by James Anderson. London: Routledge, 2002. 224pp.
An American Tragedy: The Decline of U.S. Unionism and its Human Rights Implications By Peter Zwiebach
Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards by Lance Compa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 220pp.
Protecting Indigenous Peoples By Paul J. Magnarella
The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity by Ronald Niezen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 272pp.
Indigenous Peoples and the State: The Struggle for Native Rights by Bradley Reed Howard. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. 252pp.
Human Rights and Globalization: Is the Shrinking World Expanding Rights? By Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
The Globalization of Human Rights. Edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael W. Doyle, and Anne-Marie Gardner. Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 2003.
Globalization and Human Rights. Edited by Alison Brysk. Berkely: University of California Press, 2002.
Are Workers Rights Human Rights and Would It Matter If They Were? By Richard McIntyre
Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops by J.S. Ross. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 396pp.
Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? by Kimberly Ann Elliott and Richard B. Freeman. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 2003. 175pp.
In Plain Sight? Human Trafficking and Research Challenges By Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas. Edited by David E. Guinn and Elissa Steglich. Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2003. 475pp.
Globalization and the Construction of Universal Human Rights By Eric K. Leonard
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era by Micheline R. Ishay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization edited by Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew J. Nathan and Kavita Philip. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2003.
The Promise of Economic Rights and the Welfare State By Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Labour Left Out: Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right. By Roy Adams. Ottawa: Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 2006.
The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy. By Christopher Howard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Economic Rights in Canada and the United States. Edited by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch Jr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
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