A Renewed Call for a Robust Labor and Human Rights Agenda

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Research Article| March 01 2020 A Renewed Call for a Robust Labor and Human Rights Agenda Cathy Feingold Cathy Feingold CATHY FEINGOLD is a leading advocate on global workers’ rights issues. As director of the AFL-CIO’s International Department, Feingold is a committed and passionate advocate, strategic campaigner, and policy expert. In 2018, Feingold was elected deputy president of the International Trade Union Confederation, the organization representing 200 million unionized workers worldwide. She has more than twenty years of experience in trade and global economic policy, and worker, human, and women’s rights issues. Her work in both global and grassroots fora reflect her commitment to strengthening the voice of working people in global policy debates. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2020) 17 (1): 113–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7962864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Cathy Feingold; A Renewed Call for a Robust Labor and Human Rights Agenda. Labor 1 March 2020; 17 (1): 113–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7962864 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsLabor Search Advanced Search In his recent book Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, Samuel Moyn argues that the modern human rights movement has failed to challenge the neoliberal economic model and the growing economic inequality of the past decades. His thesis underscores tensions that have existed between a human rights movement that has focused mostly on addressing individual civil and political rights versus the conceptions of collective economic and social rights proposed by unions and allied labor rights organizations. While some traditional human rights organizations continue to argue that social justice remains outside their mandate, other smaller human rights organizations are shifting resources to increase their work on economic rights and strengthen transnational partnerships between human, labor, women’s, and social rights movements that challenge the current economic model and call for new economic rules that promote the well-being of workers and... Copyright © 2020 Labor and Working-Class History Association2020 You do not currently have access to this content.