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Labor Rights Are Not Optional By Susan Ariel Aaronson, TomPaine.com The U.S. should not enforce labor laws only for people living within its borders, which is what the Bush Administration has been doing

America’s founding fathers recognized that democracy and good governance could not flourish if the public did not participate in decision making. In the long run, good governance, like democracy, can’t be exported. But the U.S. can use trade policy to help workers abroad influence and monitor labor rights in their home countries.
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Susan Ariel Aaronson teaches at George Washington University and is the author (with Jamie Zimmerman) of Righting Trade: Public Policies at the Intersection of Trade and Human Rights (Cambridge: 2007).