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Labor And The Global Economy: Four Approaches To Transnational Labor Regulation, Katherine V.W. Stone
Labor And The Global Economy: Four Approaches To Transnational Labor Regulation, Katherine V.W. Stone
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Labor And The Global Economy: Four Approaches To Transnational Labor Regulation, Katherine Van Wezel Stone
Labor And The Global Economy: Four Approaches To Transnational Labor Regulation, Katherine Van Wezel Stone
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article examines the challenge to domestic labor regulation posed by the increasingly international economic and legal order. Part I analyzes the several ways in which increased global economic integration creates problems for labor. These problems include a decline in union bargaining power, a race-to-the-bottom in labor standards, and a weakening of labor's role as political actor. Part II identifies four approaches, or models, for transnational labor regulation that have emerged in the Western world in the past twenty years. These are: (1) preemptive legislation; (2) harmonization; (3) cross-border monitoring; and (4) extraterritorial jurisdiction. Part III explores the differences between …