Trade policy and labour standards: Objectives, instruments, and institutions

Hard Choices, Soft Law: Voluntary Standards in Global Trade, Environment and Social Governance

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 170-185

  Trebilcock, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84884790959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315253633-20     Document Type: Chapter

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