Can labor standards improve under globalization? / Kimberly Elliott, Richard Freeman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index.

Introduction -- Globalization and labor : from abolition to the antisweatshop movement -- Plan of the book -- 1. Globalization versus labor standards? -- Evaluating the debate -- Core standards and cash standards -- Do globalization and growth make labor standards unnecessary? -- Do labor standards undermine comparative advantage? -- Catch-22 : protecting international capital and intellectual property but not labor -- Implementing labor standards and globalization -- 2. The market for labor standards -- Consumer demand for labor standards -- The supply of standards -- Activists in the market for standards -- 3. Vigilantes and verifiers -- The work of vigilantes : antisweatshop campaigns -- The work of the verifiers : code development and monitoring -- Competition among codes, a race to the top? -- The missing element : the voice of developing-country workers -- 4. Labor standards and trade agreements -- What do sanctions do? -- The danger of protectionist capture -- Labor links in US trade agreements -- A role for the WTO -- 5. The ILO to the rescue? -- The ILO's tools -- The Burma case -- The role of the United States -- 6. Globalization and labor standards in action -- The Bangladeshi garment sector -- Pakistani soccer ball -- West African cocoa -- The US-Cambodia textile and apparel agreement -- Can globalization improve labor standards in China? -- A bottom-line assessment -- 7. When does doing good do good? -- Assessing the achievements of the antisweatshop campaigns -- Increasing the effectiveness of antisweatshop campaigns and spreading the benefits of globalization -- Final thoughts -- Appendix A. US-based transnational labor rights activist organizations -- Appendix B. Timeline of antisweatshop activities in the 1990s -- Appendix C. Worker's rights conditionality in the US generalized system of preferences.