Most of workers’ and human rights violations persist in the global South. Therefore, the debate about international workers’ rights revolves primarily around enforcing social standards in developing countries. Christoph Scherrer, Professor of Globalization and Politics, executive director of the International Center for Development and Decent Work at the University of Kassel, argues that the human and workers’ rights violations are inherent to the current economic rationale of global production. Developing countries offer mostly cheap labor and are therefore in competition with their neighbors in the global South. The strict adherence to core workers’ rights will put them at a comparative disadvantage vis-à-vis its competitors. The author will argue that this situation is the very reason why developing countries are limited in their ability to raise labor standards on their own. They should raise their social standards in conjunction with other countries, by multilateral agreement.