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

Estlund, Cynthia [Editor]; Bercusson, Brian [Editor];

ISBN 10: 1841137669 / ISBN 13: 9781841137667

Published by Hart Publishing, 2008

About this Item

2007; blue cloth covered boards; gilt titles; dust jacket in brodart like cover; very mild shelf wear; writing on ffep; interior is clean and unmarked; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 281 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation: New Challenges, New Institutions (Columbia London Law Series)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841137669
• ISBN 13: 9781841137667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 20 ounces

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Synopsis

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 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, labour relations scholars from North America and Europe examine the efficacy of these emerging forms of labour regulation, their democratic legitimacy, the goals and values underlying them, and the appropriate direction of reform.

About the Author

Cynthia Estlund is Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at New York University Law School.

Brian Bercusson, who died in 2008, was Professor of European Social Law at King's College, London