The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Implications for Labor

NEW PUBLICATION: Scherrer (ed.), 2014: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Implications for Labor, Mering, Rainer Hampp Verlag. 

Content:
I. Assessing TTIP and Its Supporting Studies
II. Asymmetry: Investor and Labor Rights
III. Trade Union Positions on TTIP
ANNEX: Investment Protection in the Proposed EU-Canada Agreement (CETA)

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Food Crisis: Implications for Labour

2013 publication with Debdulal Saha (eds.): Food Crisis: Implications for Labour, Mering, Rainer Hampp Verlag

Introduction: The Neglected Labour Dimension - Debdulal Saha and Christoph Scherrer 

I. Food Insecurity
1. Addressing the ‘Slow Violence’ of Food Insecurity - Jacklyn Cock
2. The Origins of the Food Crisis: The Case of East Africa - Thomas Ogola and Jane Sawe
3. Market Queens and the Blame Game in Ghanaian Tomato Marketing - Akua O.Britwum

II. Decent Work Deficit and Rural Labor 4. “You entered through that gate and you will leave through that gate”. The Decent Work Deficit amongst Farm Workers… - Edward Webster and Mbuso Nkosi
5. Indonesian Oil Palm Plantations:
Decent Work Deficit Despite Employment Growth - Hariati Sinaga
6. Rural Development and the Decent Work Agenda:The Role of Smallholders and the Rural Poor - Lars Thomann

III. Social Protection 7. Food Security Requires Income Security. The Case for Universal Social Protection Floors - Frank Hoffer
8. The Brazilian Food and Nutrition Security Policy: Concept and Results - Walter Belik
9. Food or Cash: Assisting the Urban Poor in India - Sharit K. Bhowmik, Indira Gartenberg, and Kanchan Sarker

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