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Globalization imposes pressures on the traditional welfare state. This book examines these pressures, and responses to them, from the less familiar perspective of international law. The book deals with the role of the international level in securing or supplementing national welfare functions. Thus, the authors evaluate the role of international labour law, social rights as human rights, the World Trade Organisation, non-governmental organisations and international taxation law, in the effort to maintain and promote welfare rights and the welfare state. In addition, the functions of national migration law and of social security law are analysed in case studies.
List of contents
The Challenge of Migration to the Welfare State.- 1A Comment.- 2 The Costs of International Tax Cooperation.- 3 Globalization, Domestic Politics and the Restructuring of the Welfare State: The Unemployment Insurance Program in Israel.- 4 The Israeli Welfare State: Growing Expectations and Diminishing Returns.- 5 Quod Omnes Tangit: Globalization, Welfare Regimes and Entitlements.- 6 The Search for Core Labor Standards in Liberalized Trade.- 7 The Transformative Weakness of Core Labor Rights in Changing Welfare Regimes.- 7A Comment.- 8 Social Rights Beyond the Traditional Welfare State: International Instruments and the Concept of Individual Entitlements.- 9 The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the International Labor Organization.- 10 Welfare and Democracy on a Global Level: The WTO as a Case Study.- lOA Comment.- 11 International Labor Standards and International Trade Law.- 11A Comment.- 12 Enhancing the Role of NGOs in the Global Arena: Towards a New Regime on International Labor Standards.- Appendices.
Summary
Globalization imposes pressures on the traditional welfare state. This book examines these pressures, and responses to them, from the less familiar perspective of international law. The book deals with the role of the international level in securing or supplementing national welfare functions. Thus, the authors evaluate the role of international labour law, social rights as human rights, the World Trade Organisation, non-governmental organisations and international taxation law, in the effort to maintain and promote welfare rights and the welfare state. In addition, the functions of national migration law and of social security law are analysed in case studies.
