Abstract:
This paper’s aim is to examine the reasons why the United States of America refuse to ratify international labor standards. Taking Utilitarian Liberalism as the appropriate approach tackling domestic-international entanglements, Robert D. Putnam’s Two-Level Game Theory clearly bears some explanatory value. In short, the US faces domestic constrains not to adopt the ILO conventions at the international level. Other states, backed by International Organizations,
effectively push forward the Decent Work Agenda. This tempted persuasion to shift the US domestic table from abroad is analyzed within the work’s second step. However, due to clashing interests, future challenges occur. A broad range of theoretical approaches, reaching from Putnam (1988), Atkinson and Coleman (1989), to Global Social Policy, represented by Bob Deacon (2007)
are thoroughly addressed throughout the occasional paper.