No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers 0063282135, 9780063282131

No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers 1859841724, 9781859841723

Are you aware that the T-shirt or running shoes you’re wearing may have been produced by a 13-year-old children working

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Rethinking Free Trade, Economic Integration and Human Rights in the Americas 9781849467445, 9781782257585, 9781509904518

This monograph offers the first systematic overview of the protection of human rights in trade agreements in the America

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How Creativity is Changing China 9781849666190, 9781849666169, 9781849666565, 9781849666572

The question Professor Li Wuwei investigates is not 'whether' creativity is changing China - but 'how

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South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas?: Open Regionalism and the Future of Regional Economic Integration in South America 9781351753388

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Free Trade for the Americas?: The United States’ Push for the FTAA Agreement 9781350220249, 9781842773130

The face of international trade is continuing to change rapidly. But while much attention is focused on where, post-Canc

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Migrant Workers’ Education in China: Changing Discourses and Practices 9781350170728, 9781350170759, 9781350170742

Based on an extended period of ethnographic research and observation of migrant workers– educational programmes, this bo

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From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China 9780801462931

In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic growth has been nothing short of ph

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Free Trade: Risks and Rewards 9780773568815

Few public policy issues have stirred political passions on both sides of the Canada/US border as free trade did in the

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Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization 0807844977, 9780807844977

Taking the Hard Road is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Ind

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Taking Back the Workers' Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights 9781501732393

Prolabor critics often question the effectiveness of the National Labor Relations Board. Some go so far as to call the B

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