This text analyses the various international legal instruments regulating people trafficking including treaties, 'soft law', and the definition contained in the UN Trafficking Protocol, and argues that trafficking in persons ought rightly to be considered a part of jus cogens.
"In recent decades the international community has focused its attention on trafficking in persons, which is one of the most worrying phenomena of the 21st century. This book examines trafficking in persons in the light of the recent definition of the phenomenon given by the Pro…
The autonomy of labour law
"To what extent is labour law an autonomous field of study? This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on this theme, delivered at a conference to mark Professor Mark Freedland's retirement from his teaching fellowship in Oxford. The …
"In Fading Corporatism, Guy Mundlak explains the changing nature of labor law and industrial relations in Israel and the seemingly paradoxical outcomes of transformation as played out in numerous spheres, including the law governing the recognition of trade unions and strikes; t…
Labour law: text and materials
by Ewing, K. D., (Keith D.), McColgan, Aileen, Collins, Hugh
Provides an examination of the law relating to employment, industrial relations, and labour market regulation in the law of the United Kingdom, including relevant dimensions of EC law and policy. Comprises selected extracts from cases, statutes, reports, official statistics, and…
This title is organized into four interrelated sections: theorizing industrial relations; the changing institutions that shape employment practice; the processes used by governments, employers and unions; income inquality, employee well-being, business performance and national c…
The term social dumping regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations. This boo…
La 4e de couverture indique : "Quel avenir pour le droit du travail dans une économie et une société en profonde mutation? En 1999, Alain Supiot avait présidé à la rédaction d'un rapport commandité par la Commission européenne sur "les transformations du travail et le devenir du…
Resocialising Europe in a time of crisis
"Reflexive Labour Law in the World Society investigates trends in labour and employment law from the perspective of modern social systems theory. It uses Niklas Luhmann's theory of the world society and Gunther Teubner's reflexive law concept for an analysis of modern employment…
Contributors to Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade provide the first comprehensive view of labor rights in the international trade system and the avenues open to worker rights claims in the global economy under international human rights instruments, U.S. trade …
This volume explores what the Treaty of Lisbon means for social law and social policy at the European level.
The Lisbon Treaty and Social Europe
by Bruun, Niklas, Lörcher, Klaus, Schömann, Isabelle
On 1 December 2009 the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force. Although often described as primarily technical, it significantly amended the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and the old EC Treaty (now the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, TFEU). The authors'' aim i…