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Calendar

SeS # Topics
1 Introduction: Globalization: Promise or Peril for Labor in Developing Countries?
2 Broadening the Debate: Labor and Development
3 What kind of Development?: Global Value Chains and (vs.) Local Development
4 Trade, Development and Standards
5 The Debate Over Standards I: Market and Civil Society Solutions
6 The Debate Over Standards II: What Role for the State?
7 The "Other" Laborers: Workers in the Informal Sector and Immigrant Entrepreneurs
8 Possible Solutions? Workers into Entrepreneurs... Micro-credit and Local Economic Development
9 Possible Solutions II: Global Justice and New Forms of Collaboration Between State and Society
10-12 Student Presentations