Numerous proposals have surfaced recently to incorporate a labor-standards clause into the rules of the World Trading Organization (WTO). Such a clause would require recognition and enforcement by each WTO member of certain core labor standards (CLS): freedom from forced labor, absence of discrimination, elimination of exploitative use of child workers, and rights of workers to associate freely...

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Low-cost production has driven many global apparel brands and retailers to source from less developed countries. However, low-cost is often accompanied by labor rights violations. A persistent pattern of violations exists in the supply chains, including minimum wage violations, unpaid overtime, forced worker abuse, restricting workers' unions, other Research suggests that pressures restrict fac...

In his book What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules?, Goran Therborn draws the distinction, following Nicos Poulantzas, between state power and the state apparatus. Furthermore, he defines state power as " a relation between social class forces expressed in the content of state policies, " and says that it " is exercised through the state apparatus, or more precisely, through a system of st...