Labour standards in trade agreements: A long view on the level playing field
Why Brexit negotiations on the level playing field should be seen in light of the EU’s experience with FTAs and criticisms of labour standards provisions
Why Brexit negotiations on the level playing field should be seen in light of the EU’s experience with FTAs and criticisms of labour standards provisions
The unquestioning faith of supply chain management coupled with free-trade policy has left us unprepared to confront the pandemic.
The 19th Century trade agenda being pursued by the hard Brexiteers will decimate the most productive parts of the 21st Century economy
A truly progressive agenda has to recognise the centrality of gendered and other social hierarchies to the deeper workings of the global political economy
Given that global trade integration has produced great wealth and great inequality, its governance needs to be reformed in ways that preserve the former and ameliorate the latter
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