Race to the bottom and labor standards
Drusilla K. But are tragedies like the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh in April freak occurrences or the sign of a wider problem of falling labour standards? It is most often amd within the context of labor and refers to efforts by companies to move manufacturing and operations to areas with low labor costs and worker rights. Help us Corrections Found an error or omission? During the s and s, the labour-rights index fell precipitously see the blue line below.