Labour Rights and Human Rights - Print on Demand Title

Informationen zum Autor Philip Alston is Professor of Law at New York University Law School. Klappentext Are efforts to protect workers' rights compatible with the forces of globalization? How can minimum standards designed to protect labor rights be implemented in a world in which national labor law is more and more at the mercy of international forces beyond its control? The contributors to this volume argue that international agreements and institutions are of central importance if labor rights are to be protected in a globalized economy, exploring some of the options that are open to governments, civil society, and the labor movement in the years ahead. Zusammenfassung Are efforts to protect workers' rights compatible with the forces of globalization? Exploring some of the options that are open to governments, civil society, and the labour movement, this work argues that international agreements and institutions are of central importance if labour rights are to be protected in a globalized economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors 1. Labour Rights as Human Rights: The Not so Happy State of the Art 2. Social Rights in a Globalized Economy 3. The Right to Bargain Collectively in International Law: Workers' Right, Human Right, International Right? 4. Is the ILO Effective in Upholding Workers' Rights?: Reflections on the Myanmar Experience 5. The Labor Dimension of the Emerging Free Trade Area of the Americas 6. Should the EU Have the Power to Set Minimum Standards for Collective Labour Rights in the Member States? 7. The European Union and International Labour Standards: The Dynamics of Dialogue Between the EU and the ILO Index

Product details

• Authors: Philip Alston
• Assisted by: Alston Philip (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2005
• EAN: 9780199281053
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928105-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Labor & Employment, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, Sociology: work & labour, Human rights, civil rights, Sociology: work and labour, Employment & Labour Law, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, International economic & trade law, Employment and labour law: general, Public international law: economic and trade