TY - BOOK T1 - Labor Rights and Multinational Production Y1 - 2010 A1 - Mosley, Layna KW - global supply chains KW - globalization KW - labor rights KW - labor standards KW - multinational production KW - supply chains KW - wages KW - workers’ rights KW - working conditions AB -

Labor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers’ rights and multinational production. Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in directly owned foreign investment, positively affect labor rights. But other types of international production, particularly subcontracting, can engender competitive races to the bottom in labor rights. To test these claims, Mosley presents newly generated measures of collective labor rights, covering a wide range of low- and middle-income nations for the 1985–2002 period. This book suggests that the consequences of economic openness for developing countries are highly dependent on foreign firms’ modes of entry and, more generally, on the precise way in which each developing country engages the global economy. The book contributes to academic literature in comparative and international political economy, and to public policy debates regarding the effects of globalization.(publisher's statement)

PB - Cambridge University Press CY - New York L2 - eng ER -