Justice at Work: Globalization and the Human Rights of Workers by Robert Senser

Description: Justice at Work by Robert Senser Globalization is in crisis. In Justice at Work: Globalization and the Human Rights of Workers , I explain why thats so -and why the Obama administration and the corporate world must take the lead in tailoring globalization to the needs of the 21st century. The essential requirement of that reform is that it recognize the human rights of workers everywhere. The flagrant failure to do so is to a great measure responsible for the present global economic crisis, which is escalating into a political crisis. Justice at Work: Globalization and the Human Rights of Workers examines in detail, and from various perspectives, how globalization in its present form protects the rights of business people and business organizations, to the exclusion of the rights of workers and their organizations. Justice at Work is not a diatribe against globalization or a paean to it. Globalization has a vast but largely untapped potential to improve the lives of all, I contend, but turning that potential into requires requires governments, including the new Obama administration, to act wisely and decisively to make the world trading and investment system fit the needs of the 21st century. The small group of Americans and British who designed the trade and investment system after World War II did so in order to fill an institutional and legal void in the international marketplace. But they did so very partially, in two senses of the word: partial as in incomplete and also partial as in favoring one group over others. They did meet the key demands of one important group -the international corporations, banks, law offices, and allied firms headquartered in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, as well as the business people involved in the surge in transnational commerce. But the architects of that new system ignored a group essential to global production -the men, women, and children in the international labor market. Partiality persists. In fact, it has hardened into a template that is outmoded, inadequate for the 21st century. The rules and structure of the global trade and investment system remain unequipped to promote and defend worker rights and interests as needed in the new global economy. I argue that it is now up to the United States government, as the chief architect of the present trade system, to take the lead in modernizing it for the 21st century world. I explain that argument in different ways in chapter after and chapter, each supported by specific evidence, such as the failure to end the gross exploitation of women and children in Bangladesh FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Details ISBN1436396131 Author Robert Senser Short Title JUSTICE AT WORK Language English ISBN-10 1436396131 ISBN-13 9781436396134 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2009 Subtitle Globalization and the Human Rights of Workers Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations UK Release Date 2009-03-02 AU Release Date 2009-03-02 NZ Release Date 2009-03-02 US Release Date 2009-03-02 Imprint Xlibris Pages 232 Publisher Xlibris Publication Date 2009-03-02 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:85000473;

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