Odd couple [electronic resource] : international trade and labor standards in history / Michael Huberman.
"It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labor standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labor and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more competitively a country can participate on the global stage. But in this book the dist...
| Uniform Title: | Yale series in economic and financial history.
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2012.
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| Series: | Yale series in economic and financial history.
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International trade and labor standards in history
Odd Couple: International Trade and Labor Standards in History |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-230) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The virtuous circle of trade and the labor compact -- Challenge and response -- Markets and states in Old and New Worlds -- International labor standards : ideas or trade based? -- Did the labor compact reduce inequality? -- Did labor standards harm or benefit trade? -- The labor compact in the long twentieth century -- Vandervelde's gift. | |
| 520 | |a "It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labor standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labor and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more competitively a country can participate on the global stage. But in this book the distinguished economic historian Michael Huberman demonstrates that globalization has in fact been very good for workers' quality of life, and that improved labor conditions have promoted globalization."-- Publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a International trade |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Labor laws and legislation, International. | |
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