Does dialogue work? The effectiveness of labor standards in EU preferential trade agreements

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Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements (2020, background): “…the same platitudes are being offered, such as US trade agreements contain enforceable labor standards whereas the EU agreements do not (e.g., Postnikov and Bastiaens 2014), which do not do justice to the broadening scope of enforceability in US PTAs or the recent evolution of EU PTAs, and…”
Greening up: the effects of environmental standards in EU and US trade agreements (2017, background): “Such dialogues have been shown to be effective with regard to implementation of labor standards by establishing a transnational communication channel for civil society activists and generating a positive learning environment conducive to domestic reforms (Postnikov and Bastiaens 2014).”
The domestic battle over the design of non-trade issues in preferential trade agreements (2016, background): “Awareness of the variance in design of NTI clauses in PTAs is of major importance for assessing the consequences of such provisions on domestic EP or human rights practices (Hafner-Burton, 2009; Kim, 2012; Postnikov and Bastiaenes, 2014).”