Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation

Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation
Author: Brian Bercusson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008-01-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847314066

In recent decades, the prevailing response to the problem of unacceptable labour market outcomes in both Europe and North America - national regulation of labour standards and labour relations, coupled with collective bargaining - has come under increasing pressure from the economic and technological forces associated with globalisation. As those forces have shifted power away from national governments and labour unions and toward capital, the appropriate institutional locus of labour regulation has become hotly contested. There have been efforts to move the locus of regulation downward to smaller units of governance, including firms themselves, upward to larger units such as regional federations and international organizations, and outward to non-governmental organizations and civil society. In this volume, labour relations scholars from North America and Europe examine the efficacy of these emerging forms of labour regulation, their democratic legitimacy, the goals and values underlying them, and the appropriate direction of reform.

Offshoring and the Internationalization of Employment

Offshoring and the Internationalization of Employment
Author: Peter Auer
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789290147831

This collection of papers examines key trends in the internationalisation of employment, drawing on the proceedings of an ILO conference held in Annecy, France in April 2005. The papers focus on three related issues: the impacts of trade and investment abroad, including the offshoring of production of goods and services, and effects on the winners and losers in terms of employment; adjustment methods for coping with the short and medium term problems related to the globalisation of employment; and the importance of international instruments to help ensure a level playing field in trade and promote development, drawing on established rights and international labour standards.

Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era

Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era
Author: Joanna Howe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509906290

In the global era, controversies abound over temporary labour migration; however, it has not previously been subjected to a sustained socio-legal analysis on a comparative basis, critiquing the underpinning concepts conventionally accepted as fundamental in this area. This collection of essays aims to fill that void. Complex regulatory challenges arise from temporary labour migration. This collection examines these challenges and the extent to which temporary labour migration programmes can be ethical, equitable and efficacious and so deliver decent work for workers. Whilst the tendency for migration law to divide labour law's worker-protective mission has been observed before, the authors of the chapters comprising this collection seek not only to interrogate why and how this is so, but to go further in examining the implications and effects of a wide range of regulatory mechanisms on temporary labour migration.

Transnational Labour Regulation

Transnational Labour Regulation
Author: Kerstin Ahlberg
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789052014173

This book illuminates the process and substance of transnational regulation of labour in a global economy. Transnational labour regulation, a central feature of the European social model, engages the 27 Member States of the European Union, and is of potential importance to the rest of the world. The book analyses the attempts at transnational regulation of temporary agency work through the social dialogue between trade unions and employers' organisations at European level and the subsequent - and so far fruitless - EU legislative process. These two processes of transnational labour regulation, and their interaction, until now have been largely invisible. The book also highlights distinctive features of Member States' national regulation as they interacted with the debates on EU transnational labour regulation. It further explores the overlap between regulation of temporary agency work and the EU's regulation of transnational trade in services, the subject of the Directive on services in the internal market. Finally, it draws lessons from the experience of regulation of temporary agency work at national and European levels for transnational labour regulation in general.

Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development

Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development
Author: Tonia Novitz
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2024-04-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1786430533

Examining the relationship between trade and labour regulation in light of the pressing need to promote sustainable development, Tonia Novitz interrogates how international legal architecture could be reformed so that no one in the world of work gets left behind. She highlights the dangers of pursuing labour and environmental issues on parallel tracks without recognising how they interact, ultimately arguing for the crafting of the content and application of trade rules through participatory processes, which involve the inclusive representation of all sectors of the labour market and all parts of the world.

Global Justice and International Labour Rights

Global Justice and International Labour Rights
Author: Yossi Dahan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316538966

Despite the growing global consensus regarding the need to ensure minimal labour standards, such as adequate safety and health conditions, freedom of association, and the prohibition of child labour, millions of workers across the world continue to work in horrific conditions. Who should be held responsible, both morally and legally, for protecting workers' rights? What moral and legal obligations should individuals and institutions bear towards foreign workers in their countries? Is there any democratic way to generate, regulate, and enforce labour standards in a global labour market? This book addresses these questions by taking a fresh look at the normative assumptions underlying existing and proposed international labour regulations. By focusing on international labour as a particular sphere of justice, it seeks to advance both the contemporary philosophical debate on global justice and the legal scholarship on international labour.

Labour Standards in International Economic Law

Labour Standards in International Economic Law
Author: Henner Gött
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2018-02-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3319694472

The book offers a comprehensive perspective on the highly topical issue of protecting and promoting labour standards in international economic law and the globalized economy. For the purpose of an in-depth analysis of both the specific and the fundamental aspects in this regard, it combines views from specialized academics of the legal and political sciences as well as experienced practitioners. The contributions to this book do not only reveal recurring obstacles but also point at best practices and potential for synergies, providing important guidance for future research and practice in international economic and labour law and policy.

The Oxford Handbook of Governance

The Oxford Handbook of Governance
Author: David Levi-Faur
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 828
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199560536

This Oxford Handbook will be the definitive study of governance for years to come. 'Governance' has become one of the most popular terms in contemporary political science; this Handbook explores the full range of meaning and application of the concept and its use in a number of research fields.

Working Time Around the World

Working Time Around the World
Author: Jon C. Messenger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2007-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113407039X

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Labour Law

Labour Law
Author: Hugh Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1075
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1316515745

Written by prominent UK labour lawyers, this textbook is comprehensive and engaging, with detailed commentary and integrated materials.