Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation (eBook, PDF)

New Challenges, New Institutions
Redaktion: Bercusson, Brian; Estlund, Cynthia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847314062
• Artikelnr.: 37947730

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Estlund is Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at New York University Law School. Brian Bercusson, who died in 2008, was Professor of European Social Law at King's College, London

Inhaltsangabe

1. Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation: New Challenges, New
Institutions Cynthia Estlund and Brian Bercusson 2. Corporate
Self-Regulation: Political Economy, State Regulation and Reflexive Labour
Law Harry Arthurs 3. Toward a Democratic Model of Transnational Labour
Monitoring? Mark Barenberg 4. Timing is Everything: Industrialization,
Legal Origin and the Evolution of the Contract of Employment in Britain and
Continental Europe Simon Deakin 5. Rebuilding the Law of the Workplace in
an Era of Self-Regulation Cynthia Estlund 6. Flexibilization,
Globalization, and Privatization: Three Challenges to Labour Rights in our
Time Katherine V W Stone 7. Law, Norms, and Complex Discrimination Susan
Sturm 8. The WTO as a Mechanism for Labour Regulation Bob Hepple 9. A
Changing Institutional Architecture of the European Social Model? Brian
Bercusson 10. International Regulation of the Global Economy-The Role of
Trade Unions KD Ewing 11. Alternative Mechanisms of Voice Representation
Ulrich Mückenberger 12. The Originality of Transnational Social Norms as a
Response to Globalisation A-M Moreau