Harrison, James, Barbu, Mirela, Campling, Liam, Richardson, Ben and Smith, Adrian (2019) Governing labour standards through free trade agreements : limits of the European Union’s Trade and Sustainable Development chapters. Journal of Common Market Studies, 57 (2). pp. 260-277. doi:10.1111/jcms.12715 ISSN 1468-5965.
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Abstract
The EU has established a new architecture of international labour standards governance within the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters of its Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). To examine the operationalization of this framework, we draw upon 121 interviews undertaken with key informants in three FTAs signed with the Caribbean, South Korea and Moldova. We engage with wider debates over external governance and the projection of EU power by showing how operational failings, including a lack of legal and political prioritization of TSD chapters and shortcomings in the implementation of key provisions, have hindered the impact of the FTAs upon labour standards. We also identify significant limitations to the EU’s ‘common formulation’ approach when applied to different trading partner contexts, alongside ambiguities about the underlying purpose of the trade-labour linkage. Reflection about the function and purpose of labour standards provisions in EU trade policy is therefore required.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | K Law [LC] > KJ-KKZ European law |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Labor laws and legislation -- European Union, Free trade -- Law and legislation, Sustainable development -- Law and legislation |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Common Market Studies |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| ISSN: | 1468-5965 |
| Official Date: | March 2019 |
| Dates: | Date Event March 2019 Published 25 March 2018 Available 2 December 2017 Accepted |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Page Range: | pp. 260-277 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jcms.12715 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons open licence) |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 January 2018 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 May 2018 |
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: | Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID |
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| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/97931/ |
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