Liberalized trade, foreign investments and labour standards: Can or should they converge in a new international division of labour?

Labour, Globalization and the State: Workers, Women and Migrants Confront Neoliberalism

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-46

  Banerjee, Debdas ^a  

^a Institute of Development Studies Kolkata   (India)

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EID: 84911103336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203933343     Document Type: Chapter

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