Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law

Preface

PART I CONCEPTUALIZING TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW

1. Conceptualizing Transnational Labour Law
Adelle Blackett and Anne Trebilcock

PART II TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AS LAW
A Transnational Labour Law’s Methods
2. Global Organizing and Domestic Constraints
Ashwini Sukthankar

3. Corporate Governance Structures and Practices: From Ordeal to Opportunities and Challenges for Transnational Labour Law
Isabelle Martin

4. A ‘Dialogic’ Approach In Perspective 
Laurence Boisson De Chazournes

5. International Labour Indicators: Conceptual and Normative Snares
Mark Barenberg

6. Due Diligence on Labour Issues – Opportunities and Limits of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights 
Anne Trebilcock

B Challenging Austerity, Facing Development: The North-South Challenge to Transnational Labour Law
7. Structural Adjustment, Economic Governance and Social Policy in a Regional Context: The Case of the Eurozone Crisis 
Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin

8. International Financial Institutions’ Approaches to Labour Law: The Case of the International Monetary Fund
Franz Christian Ebert

9. Racism and the Regulation of Migrant Labour 
Adrian A. Smith

10. China’s Challenge to Labour Law in both the Global North and the Global South 
Sean Cooney

11. Anti-Austerity Activism Strategies: Combining Protest and Litigation in Spain
Julia López López

PART III TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AS LABOUR LAW
A Freedom of Association in the Specificity of Labour Law

12. Pushback on the Right to Strike: Resisting the Thickening of Soft Law 
Janice R. Bellace

13. The Right to Take Collective Action: Prospects for Change in European Court of Justice Case Law in Light of European Court of Human Rights Decisions 
Reingard Zimmer

14. Freedom of Association in Deliberative Spaces: The ILO Credentials Committee
Faina Milman-Sivan

15. Freedom Of Association In International Framework Agreements
Renée-Claude Drouin

16. Transnational Labour Law and Collective Autonomy for Marginalized Workers: Reflections on Decent Work for Domestic Workers 
Adelle Blackett

B On Human Rights and Equality: Does Transnational Labour Law Provide Spaces and Vehicles to Challenge Domestic Labour Law’s Exclusions?
17. Inclusive Equality and New Approaches to Discrimination in Transnational Labour Law 
Colleen Sheppard

18. Working Together Transnationally 
Cynthia Estlund

19. Can Human Rights Based Labour Policy Improve the Labour Rights Situation in Developing Countries? A Look at Mexico and the Countries of Central America
Graciela Bensusán

20. Constitutionalising Labour in the Inter-American System on Human Rights 
Rose-Marie Belle Antoine

C Emerging Roles for the ILO as an Actor in Transnational Labour Law
21. ILO Normative Action In Its Second Century: Escaping The Double Bind? 
Francis Maupain

22. The ILO’s Supervisory Bodies’ ‘Soft Law Jurisprudence’ 
Claire La Hovary

23. Pluralism and Privatization in Transnational Labour Regulation: Experience of the International Labour Organization 
Janelle M. Diller

24. Emergent Maritime Labour Law: Possible Implications for other Transnational Labour Fields 
Aimée Asante and Ben Chigara

PART IV TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AS TRANSNATIONAL
A Thickening Soft Law? ‘Privatising’ or Infusing Transnational Labour Law with Public International Law Norms?

25. Transnational Private Labour Regulation, Consumer-Citizenship and the Consumer Imaginary 
Kevin Kolben

26. Thickening Soft Law Through Consumocratic Law: A Pragmatic Approach 
P. Martin Dumas

27. Diffusion and Leveraging of Transnational Labour Norms by the OECD 
Jean-Marc Thouvenin

28. The Use of Arbitration to Decide International Labour Issues 
Kathleen Claussen

B Beyond WTO Linkage: Emerging Directions and Social Regionalism
29. What The World Trade Organization Learned From The International Labour Organization
Steve Charnovitz

30. Harnessing the Governance Capacity of the European Union: Transnational Labour Law Responses to the Exploitation of Migrant Agricultural Workers 
Jo Hunt

31. Private International Law Rules for Transnational Employment: Reflections from the European Union
Aukje Van Hoek

32. Social Regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The International, Regional and National Interplay of Labour Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
Pamhidai H. Bamu and Rutendo Mudarikwa

33. Labour Rights and Trade Agreements in the Americas 
Paula Church Albertson and Lance Compa

C The Transnational Challenge to the Regulation of Labour as a Factor of Production: on Commodification
34. Trading in Services – Commodities and Beneficiaries
Tonia Novitz

35. The Curious Incident of the ILO, Myanmar and Forced Labour 
Brian Langille

36. The Implications of Preparatory Works for the Debate Regarding Slavery, Servitude and Forced Labour 
Jean Allain

37. Child Labour and Fragile States in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on Regional and International Responses 
Aristide Nononsi

38. A Transnational Law of Just Transitions for Climate Change and Labour 
David J. Doorey

Index 

Edited by Adelle Blackett, Law Professor, William Dawson Scholar and Director of the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Anne Trebilcock, Centre de Droit International, University of Paris 10, Nanterre-La Défense, Paris, France and the Institut für Arbeitsrecht, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany

Contributors: Z. Adams, P.C. Albertson, J. Allain, R.-M.B. Antoine, A. Asante, P.H. Bamu, M. Barenberg, J.R. Bellace, G. Bensusán, A. Blackett, L. Boisson de Chazournes, S. Charnovitz, B. Chigara, K. Claussen, L. Compa, S. Cooney, S. Deakin, J.M. Diller, D.J. Doorey, R.-C. Drouin, P.M. Dumas, F.C. Ebert, C. Estlund, A. van Hoek, J. Hunt, K. Kolben, C. La Hovary, B. Langille, J. López López, I. Martin, F. Maupain, F. Milman-Sivan, R.S. Mudarikwa, A. Nononsi, T. Novitz, C. Sheppard, A.A. Smith, A. Suktahnkar, J.-M.Thouvenin, A. Trebilcock, R.Zimmer