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Joseph McCartin Responds to Lance Compa, Gay Seidman, and Richard McIntyre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2011

Extract

First, I would like to offer my thanks to Lance Compa, Richard McIntyre, and Gay Seidman for their thoughtful responses to my essay. One could not find three more accomplished scholars with whom to engage in this discussion. Each in their own way has sharpened our thinking about the relationship of labor rights to human rights—Compa through a lifetime of inspiring organizing and writing, Seidman through her eloquent defense of human rights-based labor activism, Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights and Transnational Activism, and McIntyre through his sharp interrogation of this activism in Are Worker Rights Human Rights? Not only do they bring well-honed critiques to bear in discussing my argument, they are generous and fair-minded. I'm grateful to them for prodding me to clarify my thinking.

Type
Scholarly Controversy: Labor Rights as Human Rights?
Copyright
Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2011

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References

NOTES

1. My thanks to Andy Hazelton for sharp editing work on this and my original essay.

2. Thompson, Ginger, “Fraying of a Latin Textile Industry,” New York Times, March 25, 2005, C1Google Scholar; Ivan Castano, “Guatemala: 38,000 Apparel Jobs Lost in 2005,” January 18, 2006, http://www.just-style.com/news/38000-apparel-jobs-lost-in-2005_id91555.aspx (accessed March 25, 2011); import data from the US Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) at http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/scripts/ss/test4194.xls (accessed March 25, 2011). Thanks to Jeremy Blasi for tracking down trade data.

3. See Dissent (Winter 2005), 61–68, 70–71 (quotations, 71).