This research project analyzes different strategies for safeguarding workers’ rights in the context of global trade liberalization. It focuses empirically on the special labour institutions created in association with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), systematically evaluating the performance of these institutions and exploring the domestic and international factors that have shaped their capacity to address labour rights violations in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The project also assesses the effectiveness of trade agreement-linked institutional arrangements in comparison with such alternative rights-protection strategies as corporate social responsibility campaigns.
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