Readings

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Introduction: Globalization: Promise or Peril for Labor in Developing Countries?

Required Readings

Rodrik, Dani. Has globalization gone too far? Washington, DC: Institute of International Economics, 1997. ISBN: 9780881322415.

Recommended Readings

Collier, Paul, and David Dollar. Globalization, Growth and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; Washington, DC: World Bank, December 2001. ISBN: 082135048. (Entire article.)

Setrini, Gustavo. "Wages in the Apparel Industry; What Constitutes a Decent Standard?" An MIT Case, July 2005.

Amengual, Matthew. "Work Hours, Overtime, and Codes of Conduct." An MIT Case, July 2005.

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What kind of Development?: Global Value Chains and (vs.) Local Development

Required Readings

Nadvi, Khalid. "The Effect of Global Standards on Local producers: A Pakistani Case Study." University of Sussex, 2003. Included in: Schmitz, Hubert, ed. Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004, chapter 3. ISBN: 9781843760993.

Ver Beek, Kurt Alen. "Maquiladoras: Exploitation or Emancipation? An Overview of the Situation of Maquiladora Workers in Honduras." World Development 29, no. 9 (September 2001): 1553-1567.

Gereffi, Gary, John Humphrey, and Timothy Sturgeon. "The Governance of Global Value Chains." Review of International Political Economy (Revised November 4, 2003). (Forthcoming.)

Navas-Alemán, Lizbeth, and Luiza Bazan. "Local Implementation of Quality, Labour, and Environment Standards: Opportunities for Upgrading in the Footwear Industry." S.E.E.D. Working Paper 45, Geneva, International Labour Organization, 2003. ISBN: 9221142078.

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The Debate Over Standards I: Market and Civil Society Solutions

Required Readings

O'Rourke, Dara. "Outsourcing Regulation: Non-Governmental Systems of Labor Standards and Monitoring." Policy Studies Journal 31, no. 1 (2003): 1-29.

Elliott, Kimberly Ann, and Richard B. Freeman. "White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy." National Bureau of Economic Research Working paper 8102, January 2001.

Rodríguez-Garavito, César A. "Global Governance and Labor Rights: Codes of Conduce and Anti-Sweatshop Struggles in Global Apparel Factories in Mexico and Guatemala." Politics & Society 33, no. 2 (June 2005): 203-233.

Locke, Richard M., et al. "Does Monitoring Work?: Lessons from Nike." (To be distributed in class.)

Recommended Readings

Schrage, Elliot J. "Promoting International Worker Rights through Private Voluntary Initiatives: Public Relations or Public Policy?" University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, January 2004.

Amengual, Matthew, and Gustavo Setrini. "A Critical Look at Monitoring." An MIT Case, July 2005.

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The "Other" Laborers: Workers in the Informal Sector and Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Required Readings

Assaad, Ragui. "Formal and Informal Institutions in the Labor Market, with Applications to the Construction Sector in Egypt." World Development 21, no. 6 (1993): 925-939.

Portes, Alejandro. "The Social Origins of the Cuban Enclave Economy in Miami." Sociological Perspectives 30, no. 4 (October 1987): 340-372.

Capecchi, Vittorio. "The Informal Economy and the Development of Flexible Specialization in Emilia Romagna." The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries. Baltimore, MD; London, UK: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, chapter 10, pp. 189-215. ISBN: 9780801837357.

Saxenian, AnnaLee. "Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs." Public Policy Institute of California (September 1, 1999). (PDF)

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Possible Solutions II: Global Justice and New Forms of Collaboration Between State and Society

Required Readings

Cohen, Joshua, and Charles Sable. "Extra Rempublicam Nulla Justitia?" DRAFT, June 2005. (To be distributed in class.)

Locke, Richard M. "Building Trust." Presented at Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., September 1, 2001.