Human rights in the market place
Subtitle: the exploitation of rights protection by economic actors
By: by Christopher Harding, Uta Kohl, and Naomi Salmon.
Contributors: Kohl, Uta.; Salmon, Naomi.
Series: Markets and the law
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780754646945
Subjects: Human rights -- Economic aspects -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A fracas in the cosmetics market : competing rights and the spectrum of economic actors; title: The sun, Liverpudlians and "the truth" : a corporate right to human rights ?; title: Profit in the beef industry and human health : consumer rights as human rights; title: Taking the WTO to task at Seattle : basic rights protection as a legal strategy;  the political and legal leverage of rights argument; title: Testing grounds; title: Antitrust recidivists as rights crusaders : fashioning producer rights in Europe; title: The European laboratory : the construction of consumer rights in Europe; title: Transatlantic trade wars : producer and consumer rights on the global stage; title: Lone consumer warriors : freedom of expression in the market place; title: Concluding comments; title: Rights talk in the market place : nonsense on stilts?