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

By Cynthia Estlund , Brian Bercusson

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
1841137669, 9781841137667, 9781847314062
Open Library ID
OL12567110M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1340474 bytes)
Pages
281\291
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In recent decades, the prevailing response to the problem of unacceptable labor market outcomes in both Europe and North America — national regulation of labor standards and labor relations, coupled with collective bargaining — has come under increasing pressure from the economic and technological forces associated with globalization. As those forces have shifted power away from national governments and labor union and toward capital, the appropriate institutional locus of labor 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, labor relations scholars from North America and Europe examine the efficacy of these emerging forms of labor regulation, their democratic legitimacy, the goals and values underlying them, and the appropriate direction of reform.

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