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Global Governance of Labor Rights: Assessing the Effectiveness of Transnational Public and Private Policy Initiatives

Global Governance of Labor Rights: Assessing the Effectiveness of Transnational Public and Private Policy Initiatives

Author: Axel Marx; Jan Wouters, Glenn Rayp; Laura Beke
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781784711450
Published In: November 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Stories and images of collapsed factories, burned down sweatshops, imprisoned migrant workers, child workers and many other violations of internationally recognized labor rights continue to spread across the globe. This highly topical book examines the different instruments which are intended to protect labor rights on a transnational scale, and asks whether they make a difference.

With perspectives from law, management, sociology, political science and political economy, the topics discussed include the protection of international labor rights in a globalizing economy, the EU’s social dimension in its external trade relations, Asian and US perspectives on labor rights in international trade agreements, the role of (trade) unions in global labor governance and the transformative capacity of private labor governance regimes.

Academics and advanced students from different disciplines will benefit from the up-to-date empirical material in this study. Policy-makers, NGOs and Unions will find the discussions of the instruments used to protect labor rights of great value to their work.

1. Protecting Labour Rights in a Globalizing World: An Introduction

Axel Marx, Jan Wouters, Laura Beke and Glenn Rayp

2. The Protection of International Labour Rights. A Longitudinal Analysis of the Protection of the Rights of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining over 30 years in 73 countries

Axel Marx, Jadir Soares and Wouter Van Acker

3. The EU’s Social Dimension and its External Trade Relations

Samantha Velluti

4. Divided We Stand: The European Parliament’s Position on Social Trade in the Post-Lisbon Era

Lore Van den Putte

5. Asian and US Perspectives on Labor Rights under International Trade Agreements Compared

Ronald C. Brown

6. EU Economic Governance and Labour Rights: Diversity and Coherence in EU, Council of Europe and ILO Instruments

Frank Hendrickx and Pieter Pecinovsky

7. Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining Power in Global Labor Governance

Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten and Melanie Kryst

8. The Rapprochement of ILO Standards and CSR Mechanisms: Towards a Positive Understanding of the ‘Privatization’ of International Labour Standards

Ruben Zandvliet and Paul van der Heijden

9. Between the Dragon’s Gift and its Claws: China in Africa and the (Un)Civil Fostering of ILO’s Decent Work Agenda

Abdul-Gafar ‘Tobi’ Oshodi

10. On the Transformative Capacity of Private Fair Labour Arrangements

Ceren Pedekmir, Pieter Glasbergen and Ron Cörvers

11. Compliance Opportunities and the Effectiveness of Private Voluntary Standard Setting – Lessons from the Global Banana Industry

Dennis Klink

12. Promoting Global Labour Rights Through Complementary Capacities – The ‘Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh

Juliane Reinecke and Jimmy Donaghey

13. The International Labour Organization, Multinational Enterprises, and Shifting Conceptions of Responsibility in the Global Economy

Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner and Faina Milman-Sivan

14. Conclusion: Which Way to Enforcement?

Glenn Rayp, Axel Marx and Jan Wouters

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