Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation: New Challenges, New Institutions (Columbia-London Law)

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Half title page......Page 2
Title page......Page 4
Title verso......Page 5
General Editors' Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
1 Regulating Labour in the Wakeof Globalisation: New Challenges, New Institutions......Page 10
Globalisation and the Challenge to National Labour Regulation......Page 11
Globalisation and Workers’ Organisations: European and North American Perspectives......Page 14
Labour Regulation in a Global Economy: Institutional Design and Levels of Governance......Page 18
Labour Regulation in a Global Economy: Democratic Legitimacy......Page 23
Conclusion: Collective Frameworks of Labour Regulation......Page 26
2 Corporate Self-Regulation: Political Economy, State Regulation and Reflexive Labour Law......Page 28
Three Case Studies......Page 29
The Significance of Self-Regulation, Several Observations in Search of an Hypothesis......Page 36
Conclusion: Beyond Reflexivity, Beyond Labour Law......Page 42
3 Toward a Democratic Model of Transnational Labour Monitoring?......Page 46
‘Managerialist’ and ‘Participatory’ Models of Labour Monitoring......Page 47
Kukdong......Page 51
PT Dada—Organisational Intervention and Interaction......Page 61
Conclusion......Page 69
Introduction......Page 76
The British Case: Early Industrialization, Institutional Turbulence, and Legal Innovation in Labour Market Relations......Page 80
The British Case in Comparative Perspective: Industrialization and the Emergence of the Contract of Employment in Continental Europe......Page 88
Conclusions: Legal Origin, Institutional Change and Functionalism in Labour Law......Page 95
5 Rebuilding the Law of the Workplace in an Era of Self-Regulation......Page 98
The Rise of Regulation, and of Self-Regulation, in the Law of the Workplace......Page 100
Elements of Effective Self-Regulation in the Workplace: Tripartism, Monitoring, Whistle-blowing, and Private Enforcement......Page 102
Toward Monitored Self-Regulation of Labour Standards: A Hybrid Model and Some Examples......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 120
6 Flexibilization, Globalization, and Privatization: Three Challenges to Labour Rights in Our Time......Page 124
Pressures Shaping the Employment Relationship......Page 125
The Local as a Counterweight to the Global......Page 133
Collective Action at the Local Level Around Issues of Work and Social Citizenship......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 144
7 Law, Norms, and Complex Discrimination......Page 146
Unpacking the Implicit Assumptions About Law and Legal Process......Page 150
The Value of Bridging Law and Norms......Page 157
Law as Catalyst of Normative Elaboration and Problem Solving......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 169
Introduction......Page 170
Unilateralism......Page 171
Bilateralism and Regional Agreements......Page 174
Multilateral Trade-Labour Conditionality......Page 179
The WTO as a Threat to Bilateral and Regional Agreements......Page 184
Conclusion......Page 187
Introduction......Page 188
Levels of Regulation: Interaction of Enforcement of Labour Law at National and Transnational EU Levels......Page 189
Institutional Design: New Techniques of Labour Regulation at EU Level......Page 193
Legitimacy: The Interaction of Transnational and National Levels of Industrial Relations in Negotiating the Framework Agreement on Fixed-Term Work......Page 197
The Role and Legal Status of the EU Social Dialogue in the Proposed Constitutional Treaty......Page 205
The ‘Informal’ Constitution: Social Dialogue and Legislation in EU Labour Law......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 213
Introduction......Page 214
The Changing Focus of International Labour Law......Page 215
GUFs and International Framework Agreements......Page 218
The Nature and Purpose of International Framework Agreements......Page 220
International Framework Agreements: Content and Substance......Page 222
International Framework Agreements: Scope of Application......Page 226
International Framework Agreements: Monitoring and Supervision......Page 228
International Framework Agreements: Trade Union Opportunities......Page 230
International Framework Agreements: Problems in Practice......Page 232
Conclusion......Page 234
Extending the Concept of ‘Voice’......Page 236
Old Governance, Nation State/City— Workplace— Family......Page 242
The Result of the Crisis— New Governance, New Voice......Page 254
References......Page 258
12 The Originality of Transnational Social Norms as a Response to Globalisation......Page 262
Definition and Features of Transnational Social Norms......Page 264
The Originality of Transnational Social Norms as a Response to Globalisation......Page 274
References......Page 275
Index......Page 280