Contents -- Beyond Sweatshops -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Foreign Direct Investment in Low- Wage, Low- Skill Activities -- 3 Improving the Treatment of Workers at the Bottom by Providing a Path Up from Below -- 4 Core Standards for the Treatment of Workers around the World -- 5 WTO- Based Enforcement of Core Labor Standards -- 6 Voluntary Mechanisms for Improving the Treatment of Workers -- 7 Using Foreign Investment to Shape Host- Country Development -- 8 The Impact of Outward Investment on the Home Economy of the Investor -- 9 A Summing Up -- Notes -- Index.