Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation

Cynthia Estlund is Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at New York University Law School.Brian Bercusson, who died in 2008, was Professor of European Social Law at King's College, London

In recent decades, the prevailing response to the problem of unacceptable labor market outcomes in both Europe and North America national regulation of labor standards and labor relations, coupled with collective bargaining has come under increasing pressure from the economic and technological forces associated with globalization. As those forces have shifted power away from national governments and labor union and toward capital, the appropriate institutional locus of labor 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, labor relations scholars from North America and Europe examine the efficacy of these emerging forms of labor regulation, their democratic legitimacy, the goals and values underlying them

Examines the new forms of labour regulation emerging in response to the pressure on prevailing regulation in recent decades from the economic and technological forces associated with globalisation.

1. Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation: New Challenges, New InstitutionsCynthia Estlund and Brian Bercusson2. Corporate Self-Regulation: Political Economy, State Regulation and Reflexive Labour LawHarry Arthurs3. Toward a Democratic Model of Transnational Labour Monitoring?Mark Barenberg4. Timing is Everything: Industrialization, Legal Origin and the Evolution of the Contract of Employment in Britain and Continental EuropeSimon Deakin5. Rebuilding the Law of the Workplace in an Era of Self-RegulationCynthia Estlund6. Flexibilization, Globalization, and Privatization: Three Challenges to Labour Rights in our TimeKatherine V W Stone7. Law, Norms, and Complex DiscriminationSusan Sturm8. The WTO as a Mechanism for Labour RegulationBob Hepple9. A Changing Institutional Architecture of the European Social Model?Brian Bercusson10. International Regulation of the Global Economy-The Role of Trade UnionsKD Ewing11. Alternative Mechanisms of Voice RepresentationUlrich Mückenberger12. The Originality of Transnational Social Norms as a Response to GlobalisationA-M Moreau