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Re-Imagining Labour Law for Development: Informal Work in the Global North and South

Re-Imagining Labour Law for Development: Informal Work in the Global North and South

Author: Diamond Ashiagbor
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509946297

Published In: January 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781509913152

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The aim of this book is to explore labour law's conceptual and normative narrative. If labour law is informed by the wider political and economic landscape within which it operates, then given the declining prevalence of the post-war model of full employment within a formal welfare state regime, what shape does or should labour law assume in response to the transformation of the political economy in countries of the global North? Correspondingly, what is the proper role to be played by labour law and labour relations institutions in the development process within industrialising countries of the global South, where informal employment has long been, and remains, the predominant form?

Drawing on the expertise of leading labour law scholars, this collection addresses those questions by examining the growth and continued prevalence of informality. Offering research that is both empirically grounded and doctrinally astute, the book explores the changing character of labour law in the global North and South.

Introduction: Narratives of Informality and Development

Diamond Ashiagbor

PART I: THEORISING INFORMALITY AND INFORMALISATION: HISTORICAL AND DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES

1. Historicising Labour in Development: Labour Market Formalisation through the Lens of British Colonial Administration

Kerry Rittich

2. Labour Law, Development Discourse and the Uses of Informality

Liam McHugh-Russell

3. Informalisation in International Labour Regulation Policy: Profiles of an Unravelling

Deirdre McCann

PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES: HISTORICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

4. Do Human Rights Work for Informal Workers?

Supriya Routh