Trade-Linked Worker Rights
Pease was the legislative champion of the rapidly-growing movement inside and outside of Congress in the early 1980s to link respect for internationally recognized worker rights (e.g. prohibition of exploitative child labor in the production of products for export) to international trade, investment and aid agreements to which the U.S. is a party. He successfully authored six different laws in this regard before he left Congress.
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