This paper investigates the effects of multinational corporations on labor standards. We argue that the previous literature has failed to distinguish the different motives that encourage firms to become multinational. Therefore, we build a stylized model of segmented labor markets with...

Unraveling the Garment Industry investigates the politics of labor and protest within the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movementsÑagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityÑEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational...

Citizens, markets, and transnational labor activism -- Labor rights as human rights : regulation in the context of a "thinned" national state -- Monitoring multinationals : lessons from the anti-apartheid era -- Social labels, child labor, and monitoring in the Indian carpet industry --...