- Collection:
- Scholarly Works
- Title:
- Invisible Workers
- Creator:
- LeClercq, Desiree
- Date of Original:
- 2022-01-01
- Subject:
- Law--History
Law--Study and teaching
Constitutional law
International law
Criminal law - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Previously published in AJIL Unbound. (https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2022.13)
international economic law -- globalization -- unions -- international law -- trade policy -- International Law -- International Trade Law
In the parable, The Emperor Has No Clothes, an emperor walks naked through a public procession, assured by his own pride and vain advisors that he was wearing a magnificent robe visible only to the smart and worthy. Like the emperor, governments imagine that they have cloaked international economic law in a new “worker-centered” trade policy. This essay explains how their efforts have merely exposed the deficits in international economic law. They have failed to account for asymmetries between capital and labor and hierarchies between sectors of workers. They also exclude the voices of the world's most vulnerable workers—particularly those who do not benefit from union representation or job formality. The essay proposes that if policymakers intend to give workers an authentic voice and bargaining power, they must critically examine international economic law's very corpus. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1689
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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