Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation: New Challenges, New Institutions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781841137667)

In recent decades, the prevailing response to the problem of unacceptable labour market outcomes in both Europe and North America - national regulation of labour standards and labour relations, coupled with collective bargaining - has come under increasing pressure from the economic and technological forces associated with globalisation. As those forces have shifted power away from national governments and labour unions and toward capital, the appropriate institutional locus of labour regulation has become hotly contested. There have been efforts to move the locus of regulation downward to smaller units of governance, including firms themselves, upward to larger units such as regional federations and international organizations, and outward to non-governmental organizations and civil society. In this volume, labour relations scholars from North America and Europe examine the efficacy of these emerging forms of labour regulation, their democratic legitimacy, the goals and values underlying them, and the appropriate direction of reform.

Author: Brian Bercusson
ISBN-10: 1841137669
ISBN-13: 9781841137667
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/10/2008
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d