Drusilla Brown of Tufts University reviews, “Odd Couple: International Trade and Labor Standards in History “ by Michael Huberman. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores how workers, firms, and states in the first wave of globalization responded to questions about social policy and international integration. Discusses the virtuous circle of trade and the labor compact; challenge and response; markets and states in old and new worlds; whether international labor standards are ideas or trade based; whether the labor compact reduced inequality; whether labor standards harmed or benefited trade; the labor compact in the long twentieth century; and Émile Vandervelde's gift. Huberman is Professor of History at the University of Montreal.”
International Labor Standards and International Trade
