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Worker Rights Provisions and Trade Policy: Should They Be Linked? (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 30, 1996
Report Number 96-661
Report Type Report
Authors Mary Jane Bolle, Economics Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

This report addresses the following worker rights and trade policy issues: current congressional concern about child labor and fast-track reauthorization; arguments for and against linking worker rights to trade policy; economic reasons why the worker rights issue is surfacing now; existing laws and trade agreements linking working rights and trade policy; action Congress might take to try to resolve the current worker right-and-trade policy dilemma.