Global Justice and International Labour Rights

Presents innovative perspectives on the moral and legal obligations of individuals and institutions toward workers in the global era.

List of contents

1. Introduction Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner and Faina Milman-Sivan; Part I. Justice in a Global Labour Market: Philosophical Foundations: 2. Global labour injustice: a critical overview Miriam Ronzoni; 3. Global labour rights as duties of justice Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner and Faina Milman-Sivan; 4. How should we conceive of individual consumer responsibility to address labour injustices? Christian Barry and Kate Macdonald; Part II. International Labour Law as a Sphere of Justice: 5. Justice in a globalizing world: resolving conflicts between workers' rights beyond the nation state Judy Fudge and Guy Mundlak; 6. Union responsibility to migrant workers: a global justice approach Einat Albin; 7. The narrative of global justice and the grammar of law Brian Langille; 8. To what duties do global labour rights correlate?: responsibility for labour standards down the production chain Alan Hyde; Part III. Global Governance, Democracy and International Labour: 9. Institutional change in transnational labour governance: implementing social standards in public procurement and export credit guarantees Anke Hassel and Nicole Helmerich; 10. Democratic management and international labour rights Carol C. Gould.

About the author

Yossi Dahan is an associate professor of law at the College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel, where he is also the Director of the human rights program.Hanna Lerner is a senior lecturer in political science at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies (Cambridge, 2011).Faina Milman-Sivan is a senior lecturer at the Law Faculty at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Summary

This multi-perspective analysis of the normative implications of international labour regulations bridges the disciplinary gap between two areas of study that are rarely discussed in tandem: the normative-philosophical discussion on global justice and the empirical-legal study of international labour law.

Product details

• Authors: Yossi Dahan, Yossi Lerner Dahan
• Assisted by: Yossi Dahan (Editor), Dahan Yossi (Editor), Hanna Lerner (Editor), Hanna (Tel-Aviv University) Lerner (Editor), Lerner Hanna (Editor), Faina Milman-Sivan (Editor), Faina (University of Haifa Milman-Sivan (Editor), Milman-Sivan Faina (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107458154
• ISBN: 978-1-107-45815-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Labor & Employment, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Employment & Labour Law, Employment and labour law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law