Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour, this book looks at the impact of the EU's 'new generation' free trade agreements on workers. Drawing upon extensive original research, including over 200 interviews with key actors across the EU and its trading partners, it considers the effectiveness of the trade-labour linkage in an era of global value chains. The EU believes trade can work for all, claiming that labour provisions in its free trade agreements ensure that economic growth and high labour standards go hand-in-hand. Yet whether these actually make a difference to workers is strongly contested. This book explains why labour provisions have been profoundly limited in the EU's agreements with the CARIFORUM group, South Korea and Moldova. It also shows how the provisions were mismatched with the most pressing workplace concerns in the key export industries of sugar, automobiles and clothing, and how these concerns were exacerbated by the agreements' commercial provisions. This pioneering approach to studying the trade-labour linkage provides insights into key debates on the role of civil society in trade governance, the relationship between public and private labour regulation, and the progressive possibilities for trade policy in the twenty-first century. This book will appeal to research scholars, post-graduate students, trade policy practitioners, policy researchers allied to labour movements, and informed activists.

Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance: The European Union’s Trade-Labour Linkage in a Value Chain World (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Smith, Adrian

HARRISON, JAMES

Campling, Liam

Richardson, Ben

Barbu, Mirela

Politics & Government

Routledge

Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

Examining transformations using a variety of perspectives Theorizing Transition provides both a rich empirical map of the dimensions of post-Communism and raises important theoretical issues about how we interpret these changes.

Theorizing Transition: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations

Business & Money

Pickles, John

Economics

Monsters of River and Rock: My Life as Iron Maiden’s Compulsive Angler

Arts & Photography

Music

Virgin Books

Updated for paperback with a brand new chapter on Parrot Cay Island.\nLegendary Iron Maiden guitarist takes you to the final frontier of fishing.\nWelcome to the world of Adrian Smith, playing onstage to millions of fans - while behind the scenes he explores far-flung rivers, seas and lakes, waterways and weirs, in a fearless quest for fishing nirvana.\nHooked on the angling adrenaline rush since first catching perch from East London canals on outings with his father, Adrian grew up to be in one of the most successful rock bands in history. On tour, his gear went with him. The fish got bigger. The adventures more extreme.\nIn Monsters of River and Rock you'll hear about his first sturgeon: a whopping 100-pounder from the roaring rapids of Canada's Fraser River that nearly wiped him out mid-Maiden tour. Then there's the close shave with a shark off the Virgin Islands whilst wading waist-deep for bonefish. Not to mention an enviable list of specimen coarse fish from the UK.\nCome to the riverbank with Adrian and cast a line on the wild side.\n'Outstanding' - Times Radio 
'Writes beautifully' - The Sun 
'Beautifully written account' - Guardian 
'Essential reading' - The Music Radar 
'Candid wit and cracking anecdotes' - Classic Rock magazine

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Fields of Glass: Labour Regimes, Techno-Science and Biopolitics in Agrifood Value Chains (Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains)

Cambridge University Press

Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. <ul>
<li>Proposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geography</li> <li>Develops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global production</li> <li>Draws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industries</li> <li>Makes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement</li> </ul>

Finance

Wiley/Blackwell

Integrated Pollution Control: Change and Continuity in the UK Industrial Pollution Policy Network (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1997, This book presents a detailed analysis of the Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) policy process. Using developments in the late nineties in the public policy literature to analyse and produce answers to why the government introduced IPC and how has IPC policy been implemented.

Social Sciences

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