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About the author of Justice at Work Robert Senser started writing-and publishing-articles about worker rights while still in high school. In the past seventeen years his writings, focusing particularly on the human rights of working men and women under globalization, have appeared in America, American Educator, Christian Science Monitor, Commonweal, Dissent, Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service Journal, Monthly Labor Review, U.S. Catholic, and other publications, as well in his Web bulletin, Human Rights for Workers. He draws on that material, and on his fifty years of involvement in human rights (including twenty-one years as a labor attaché in the U.S. Foreign Service), to show how twenty-first-century globalization can-and must-be transformed to serve not only the rights of business and business people but also the rights of labor and workers. Senseredited Work, a montly published by the Catholic Council on Working Life in Chicago, while studying for a bachelor of science degree in evening classes at Loyola University under the GI Bill of Rights.
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How globalization affects you, why you should care and what you can do about it,
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This review is from: JUSTICE AT WORK: GLOBALIZATION AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WORKERS (Paperback)
Robert A. Senser may have spent over 20 years working for the Foreign Service as a Labor Attaché, but his voice in this engaging book is one of an activist personally involved in the defense of workers' and human rights through his writing. This book seems to be at the same time a compilation of the author's published articles and a recount of a personal exploration of his efforts "to describe how globalization affects working men and women and how it creates the need to integrate human rights, including the human rights of workers, into global rules and practices", as he eloquently states in his introduction.I particularly appreciated Senser's talking directly to the reader from the very beginning of the book. He explains who he is and how and why he started caring about the plight of workers in his introduction, and then in the first part of the book (through chapter 7) he seems to take us on a journey with him, complete with eyewitness accounts, to answer the unspoken question of why the rest of us should care about the human rights of workers. This part of the book, which talks about issues like sweatshops and child labor, has the effect of drawing you in like a good conversation. By providing real-world examples to illustrate his research into the issues he provides a convincing counter-argument to a prevailing view of development that argues that a lack of basic worker safety or that children's sweatshops are ok on some level because certain countries are still "catching up". The rest of the book follows on from this first introduction in the same personally engaging style when it turns towards important issues surrounding Globalization, such as dangerous inequalities in global trade agreements and the WTO. Not that there aren't a couple of left turns (my favorite is chapter 15, "The Delights of Sunday" which argues the merits of making Sunday a day of rest from work and, more importantly, shopping!). But this only makes the book seem more like an intelligent conversation with an interesting activist. It is refreshing to read a book which manages to talk about such important issues in so friendly and accessible a tone without compromising scholarly research and the value of personal experience on the issues. The flow of chapters -some follow one from the other, others seem more random in progression -seem to form an arc drawing us in to answer the question of what we can personally do about this protecting the rights of workers and human rights in general, now that we are armed with more insight. Senser dedicates the end of his book (from about chapter 18 to 24) to proposing concrete solutions and areas where reform and action is necessary. Agree oror disagree, this book definitely provides food for thought and makes for an interesting addition (especially) to the debate between free trade ideologues and the proponents of improved workers' rights and protections in the arena of international trade agreements. It also makes a contribution to the debate around the nature of Globalization. Globalization is a complicated and entangled phenomenon, and the author not only explains how he sees it as if he were talking to a good friend (ie: clearly), but he takes a definite position, one who many of us that are trying to think of our own (local, community) alternatives to it, share.
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Required Reading for Activists!,
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This review is from: JUSTICE AT WORK: GLOBALIZATION AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WORKERS (Paperback)
I just finished Robert A. Senser's marvelous "Justice at Work" and can't praise it highly enough!A perfect blend of insight, analysis, history and autobiography that captivated me and made me want to stand up and holler. Yes! Finally, a keen perspective on globalization that considers (and champions) the basic human rights of workers rather than a narrow minded focus (like that of WalMart) on the bottom line. In fact, I come away from this book thinking that perhaps, maybe, merchants and manufacturers might want to consider their employees as much as their customers and shareholders. What a radical idea. Two things I picked up on that the earlier reviewers seem to have missed: First, the author finds his inspiration from The Bible, altho he does not wear religion on his sleeve. I had to go back to Psalm 1 to capture its beauty. Secondly, the author has particular compassion for little people, especially child labor and women workers. Because he did it for these, the least of Christ's brethren, this "veteran in the struggles for worker rights" did it to Him. God bless Robert Senser. --The Rev. Dr. Will Lawbaugh, Rector of St. Paul's Lock Haven.
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An eye opener,
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This review is from: JUSTICE AT WORK: GLOBALIZATION AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WORKERS (Paperback)
Reading Robert Senser's book, Justice at Work opened my eyes to the realities of labor injustice throughout the world, especially toward woman and children. Mr. Senser discusses actions we can take as consumers to effect positive change. I also enjoyed his insights in Chapter 15.
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