Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2010
Abstract
Approaches to economic development have overemphasized negative economic freedom for multinational corporations at the expense of a majority of the population in developing countries. An inevitable outcome has been the growth of informal sector and “vulnerable” employment in developing countries and entrenchment of existing inequalities. We argue that rather than an emphasis on negative freedom, an emphasis on using labor standards to facilitate positive economic freedom must occur. Labor standards do this not only through the “core” rights of union membership and collective bargaining, but also in addressing substantive (“non-core”) rights at work (wages, working-time, etc.), thereby facilitating positive freedom.
Published In
Warnecke, Tonia, and Alex DeRuyter. Positive Economic Freedom: An Enabling Role for International Labor Standards in Developing Countries? Journal of Economic Issues 44, issue 2 (2010) 385-392.
Publication Title
Journal of Economic Issues
ISSN
0021-3624
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/JEI0021-3624440210
Included in
Growth and Development Commons, International Economics Commons, Labor Economics Commons
Comments
©2010, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics