Unexpected Power : : Conflict and Change among Transnational Activists / / Shareen Hertel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Hertel, Shareen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)

U.S. human rights advocacy has long focused on civil and political rights-issues such as torture, censorship, and lack of democratic freedoms abroad. In the 1990s a series of high-profile anti-sweatshop and fair-trade campaigns shifted the spotlight to labor issues. But as human rights activists in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. New Dynamics in Transnational Advocacy: An Introduction
• 2. Conflict and Change within Advocacy Networks: Theoretical Underpinnings
• 3. Child Labor, Child Rights, and Transnational Advocacy: The Case of Bangladesh
• 4. Discrimination, the Right to Work, and Reproductive Freedom: The Case of Mexico
• 5. A Decade Later: Assessing Advocacy's Effects over Time
• 6. Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Questionnaire-Bangladesh Interviews
• Appendix 2. Questionnaire-Mexico Interviews
• Notes
• References
• Index