Review Essays
Topical Foci: Labor 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.
Exploring Children's Rights in the World of Work By Jean Scandlyn
Children of Other Worlds by Jeremy Seabrook. London: Pluto, 2001. 166pp.
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.
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.
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.
The Profit Motive: Can Corporate Networks be an Effective Conduit for Improving Worker Rights? By Alisa DiCaprio
Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? By Kimberly Elliott and Richard Freeman. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 2003. 179pp.
Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Approaches to Global Labor Challenges. Edited by Laura Hartman, Denis Arnold and Richard Wokutch. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2003. 414pp.
Transnational Corporations and Human Rights. Edited by Jedrzej Frynas and Scott Pegg. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 223pp.
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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