This book is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, assessing its efficacy in protecting workers' rights over the entire period it was in effect and demonstrating its broader significance for the role of trade and labor standards in U.S. foreign policy.

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations1. The International Defense of Labor Rights: Concepts, Policy Arenas, and the Challenge of State Sovereignty2. Pathways to the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: From Multilateral Proposals to Unilateral Actions Linking Labor Rights and Trade Agreements3. Context and Constraints: The Origin and Negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement's Labor Rights Provisions4. The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation in Principle and in Practice, 1994-20205. Legacies of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: Labor Rights, U.S. Free-Trade Agreements, and U.S.-Mexican Negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, 2001-20176. Renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement: Labor Rights and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, 2017-20197. Labor Rights, Trade Agreements, State Sovereignty: Past Record and Future ProspectsAcknowledgmentsAppendix A: Statistical Analysis of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences Cases, 1985-1995Appendix B: Annotated List of NAALC Public Communications Submitted to the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. National Administrative Offices (NAOs), 1994-2020Appendix C: Annotated List of Public Submissions to the U.S. Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA), 2008-2016Appendix D: Annotated List of Rapid Response Mechanism Petitions Concerning Mexico Submitted to the U.S. Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement, 2021-2022NotesBibliographyIndex