Reconciling international trade and labor protection : why we need to bridge the gap between ILO standards and WTO rules / Wolfgang Plasa ; preface by Mogens Peter Carl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : what this book is about -- The institutional framework -- The framework of the discussion -- Linking trade to labor standards for non trade-related reasons -- Linking trade to labor standards for trade-related reasons -- Alternative approaches -- Links in the trade regimes and arrangements of the EU and the US -- The shape of the links proposed in this study -- Objections to linking trade and labor standards -- Additional benefits of linking trade and labor standards -- Getting agreement on linking trade and labor standards -- My own proposals.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.