Labour Laws and Global Trade

Half Title Page......Page 1
Half Title verso......Page 2
Title Page......Page 3
Title verso......Page 4
Contents......Page 7
Boxes......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Table of Abbreviations......Page 15
Table of Cases......Page 19
Aim and scope of this book......Page 25
Labour in the new global economy......Page 29
The dilemmas of labour laws......Page 33
The case for transnational regulation......Page 37
Origins 1818–1919......Page 49
Foundation and Formative Years of the ILO: 1919–46......Page 53
Decolonisation and the Cold War......Page 57
Challenges to universality......Page 59
Does the supervisory machinery work?......Page 71
New directions: fundamental rightsand decent work......Page 80
The shift from public to private regulation......Page 93
Corporate codes and labels......Page 96
Trade unions, NGOs and collective agreements......Page 100
The OECD Guidelines and the ILO Tripartite Declaration......Page 102
Who wins in the ‘race to the top’?......Page 109
Introduction......Page 113
‘Aggressive unilateralism’: US trade policy......Page 115
Effects on labour rights......Page 117
Undermining the rule of international law?......Page 118
Ineffective procedures?......Page 120
Protectionist and political motives?......Page 124
‘Soft unilateralism’: the EU’s generalised system of preferences......Page 125
US and EU compared......Page 129
Introduction......Page 131
The North American Agreement onLabor Co-operation......Page 132
Variations in later Free Trade Agreements......Page 138
The effectiveness of the emerging American model......Page 142
EU external trade agreements......Page 146
Winners and losers......Page 150
Introduction......Page 153
Reconciling social clauses with WTO Agreements......Page 157
The principle of non-discrimination......Page 159
An illustration: social labelling......Page 161
Article XX exceptions......Page 165
Other mechanisms for social clauses?......Page 168
The integration of developing countries......Page 169
Would WTO sanctions work?......Page 172
Introduction......Page 175
The applicable law......Page 177
The appropriate forum......Page 182
Posted workers and social dumping......Page 189
Cross-border transfers of undertakings and offshore outsourcing......Page 196
Collective bargaining and employee representation......Page 202
International solidarity action......Page 210
Conclusion: the limits of extra-territoriality......Page 213
Introduction......Page 217
The making of EU social and employment policy......Page 218
Negative harmonisation......Page 235
Positive harmonisation......Page 242
The open method of co-ordination......Page 249
Social dialogue......Page 254
Fundamental rights......Page 262
Conclusions......Page 271
Introduction......Page 275
Economic models......Page 277
Political models......Page 280
Seeking comparative institutional advantage......Page 290
Re-inventing transnational labour regulation......Page 295
References......Page 301
Index......Page 319