ABSTRACT
This chapter observes that recent sociological work makes an important contribution by linking unionization efforts to larger process, that is essential in any discussion of labor rights as human rights. It is worth noting that the labor movement played an integral role in the enactment of laws and regulations protecting all workers, including the Social Security, Occupational Safety and Health, and Family Medical Leave acts, measures addressing fundament human rights. The erosion of union membership and power over the past fifty years, alarm human rights activists as much as it does their organized labor counterparts. In the end of World War I, the International Labour Organization (ILO) focuses on social justice as a means of promoting peace. The human rights movement has not experienced the decline as the labor movement and, in fact, it claims to be stronger than it was forty years ago. The human rights and labor movements do not run on the same track.
