Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation : New Challenges, New Institutions


Cynthia. Estlund
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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Oxford : : Hart Publishing Limited, , 2008.
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1 online resource (290 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Half title page; Title page; Title verso; General Editors' Preface; Contents; 1 Regulating Labour in the Wakeof Globalisation: New Challenges, New Institutions; Globalisation and the Challenge to National Labour Regulation; Globalisation and Workers' Organisations: European and North American Perspectives; Labour Regulation in a Global Economy: Institutional Design and Levels of Governance; Labour Regulation in a Global Economy: Democratic Legitimacy; Conclusion: Collective Frameworks of Labour Regulation. - 2 Corporate Self-Regulation: Political Economy, State Regulation and Reflexive Labour LawThree Case Studies; The Significance of Self-Regulation, Several Observations in Search of an Hypothesis; Conclusion: Beyond Reflexivity, Beyond Labour Law; 3 Toward a Democratic Model of Transnational Labour Monitoring?; 'Managerialist' and 'Participatory' Models of Labour Monitoring; Kukdong; PT Dada-Organisational Intervention and Interaction; Conclusion; Abstract; Introduction; The British Case: Early Industrialization, Institutional Turbulence, and Legal Innovation in Labour Market Relations. - 6 Flexibilization, Globalization, and Privatization: Three Challenges to Labour Rights in Our TimePressures Shaping the Employment Relationship; The Local as a Counterweight to the Global; Collective Action at the Local Level Around Issues of Work and Social Citizenship; Conclusion; 7 Law, Norms, and Complex Discrimination; Unpacking the Implicit Assumptions About Law and Legal Process; The Value of Bridging Law and Norms; Law as Catalyst of Normative Elaboration and Problem Solving; Conclusion; Introduction; Unilateralism; Bilateralism and Regional Agreements. - Multilateral Trade-Labour ConditionalityThe WTO as a Threat to Bilateral and Regional Agreements; Conclusion; Introduction; Levels of Regulation: Interaction of Enforcement of Labour Law at National and Transnational EU Levels; Institutional Design: New Techniques of Labour Regulation at EU Level; Legitimacy: The Interaction of Transnational and National Levels of Industrial Relations in Negotiating the Framework Agreement on Fixed-Term Work; The Role and Legal Status of the EU Social Dialogue in the Proposed Constitutional Treaty. - The 'Informal' Constitution: Social Dialogue and Legislation in EU Labour Law. - The British Case in Comparative Perspective: Industrialization and the Emergence of the Contract of Employment in Continental EuropeConclusions: Legal Origin, Institutional Change and Functionalism in Labour Law; 5 Rebuilding the Law of the Workplace in an Era of Self-Regulation; The Rise of Regulation, and of Self-Regulation, in the Law of the Workplace; Elements of Effective Self-Regulation in the Workplace: Tripartism, Monitoring, Whistle-blowing, and Private Enforcement; Toward Monitored Self-Regulation of Labour Standards: A Hybrid Model and Some Examples; Conclusion. - 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 sma
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