Protecting Labour Rights in a Multi-polar Supply Chain and Mobile Global Economy

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-90-411-5662-4
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, Band 89, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 91 g

Reihe: Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations

Owing to a marked decline in global transaction costs, firms increasingly outsource the various production lines within their production process to different parts of the world. In doing so, firms are not only able to introduce more flexibility into their production chain, but may also operate on a more cost-effective basis. As a result, both the production of goods and the provision of services have increasingly been geared towards a supply-chained global economy, in which firms and workers from different parts of the world are interconnected with one another through a multitude of supply- or value chains. At the same time, however, firms have also inadvertently contributed to an increasingly fragmented production process, with notable impacts on the working conditions of those involved in the more labour-intensive mechanics of the supply chain. Notwithstanding the existence of a significant international apparatus to foster labour rights in the global economy, enforcement gaps remain and labour rights violations continue to be endemic in many parts of the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blanpain, Roger

Weitere Mitwirkende

Blanpain, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.

Protecting Labour Rights in a Multi-polar Supply Chain and Mobile Global Economy: An Introduction Axel Marx, Jan Wouters & Laura Beke.

CHAPTER 1 Monitoring Precarious and Forced Labour in Brazil: Sweatshops in São Paulo from a Gender Perspective João Paulo Cândia Veiga & Katiuscia Moreno Galhera.

CHAPTER 2 Multi-layered Gaps between ILO Conventions and the Chinese Legal Protection for Migrant Women Workers as Domestic Helpers in China Peng Qinxuan.

CHAPTER 3 Approaches in Promoting Fair and Ethical International Labour Recruitment Lara White & Lauren Marsh.

CHAPTER 4 EU Trade Policy and International Labour Standards: The View from the ILO Pieter Leenknegt.

CHAPTER 5 US and EU Labor Governance in the Dominican Republic: Contrasting the DR-CAFTA and the CARIFORUM-EPA De Jure and De Facto Myriam Oehri.

CHAPTER 6 European Union Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments: Developing Coherence between Trade Agreements and Labour Standards Kyle Cote.

CHAPTER 7 The Potential Role of the ILO to Enhance Institutional Coherence on CSR in International Trade and Investment Agreements Rafael Peels & Anselm Schneider.

CHAPTER 8 An Empirical Examination of the Function of the OECD National Contact Points to Handle Complaints on an Alleged Breach of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Juan Carlos Ochoa S.

CHAPTER 9 Towards a Reflexive Juridification of Private Governance Instruments: The Case of Labor Standards Klaas Hendrik Eller.

Conclusion: Enforcement Gaps and Fragmentation in Global Labour Governance Axel Marx, Jan Wouters & Glenn Rayp.