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The 'Race To The Bottom' Returns: China’S Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
The 'Race To The Bottom' Returns: China’S Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
China is now, and increasingly, an integral player in the global economy and in international relations. Economic and political restructuring in China today is affecting the lives of millions, yet only a small number of top bureaucrats and wealthy regime-backed entrepreneurs are making the basic decisions about the outcome of this process. This bureaucratic and entrepreneurial class resists fiercely any serious attempt to build independent and democratic institutions such as trade unions.
This article will consider four areas of concern. First, the structural changes underway in the Chinese economy are creating both domestic and international imbalances that are exacerbating inequalities …
Book Review, Success Through Political Action: Collective Bargaining In The Private Sector (Paul F. Clark Et Al. Eds.), César F. Rosado Marzán
Book Review, Success Through Political Action: Collective Bargaining In The Private Sector (Paul F. Clark Et Al. Eds.), César F. Rosado Marzán
All Faculty Scholarship
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Priestley V. Fowler (1837) And The Emerging Tort Of Negligence, Michael Ashley Stein
Priestley V. Fowler (1837) And The Emerging Tort Of Negligence, Michael Ashley Stein
Faculty Publications
Priestly v. Fowler has long been noted as the source of the doctrine of common employment. This Article, however, argues that the case is better understood in the context of the then-emerging independent tort of negligence-specifically, as an unsuccessful attempt to require of masters a duty of care towards their servants. The Article re-examines the facts, arguments, personalities, and various reported versions of the case in tracing the effort to establish a new duty of care. The Article traces, as well, to another case, Hutchinson v. York, the true origins of the common employment doctrine. Finally, the Article compares the …
Immigration And The Workplace: Immigration Restrictions As Employment Discrimination, Howard F. Chang
Immigration And The Workplace: Immigration Restrictions As Employment Discrimination, Howard F. Chang
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