Preface

In days that are now part of a distant past, work was a multigenerational experience. Younger generations grew up working with their parents – and sometimes with their grandparents as well – on family farms, in “mom and pop” grocery stores, in family restaurants, and in many other endeavors. Today, that is increasingly rare. We are diminished by these missing threads in our social experiences.

Hoping to regain some of these missing threads, the two of us – a father and a daughter – began exploring the possibility of collaborating on a book addressing issues of mutual interest pertaining to human rights and the ethics of globalization. The result is this volume. We each had particular areas of expertise to contribute to this joint enterprise – one of us from years of experience teaching business ethics and engaging in research leading to numerous books and articles, the other as a recent graduate of a top-tier law school. Both of us contributed to this volume in significant ways. Neither of us could have written this volume without the active involvement of the other. In short, it was a cooperative project in every sense of the term.