This book considers the previously neglected intersection between work and development and considers how protection of labour standards may be understood in development terms. Examples are given of concrete achievement in anti-discrimination, child labour, trade relations and social dialogue.
This book considers the previously neglected intersection between work and development and considers how protection of labour standards may be understood in development terms. Examples are given of concrete achievement in anti-discrimination, child labour, trade relations and social dialogue.
Professor Tonia Novitz first studied law in New Zealand and qualified there as a Barrister and Solicitor, specialising in employment law and civil litigation. She then studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where she was awarded the BCL and completed her doctorate. She has been a visiting fellow at the International Institute for Labour Studies (Geneva), a Jean Monnet Fellow and a Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence) and a senior visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne. David Mangan is Lecturer in the Law of Obligations at the University of Leicester. Research and teaching interests include employment, tort and contract law with an emphasis on professional services. He has been a consultant in public sector labour relations and is a barrister and solicitor in Canada. His doctorate was recently completed at the London School of Economics. Publications have dealt with employment, tort and education law.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Part I: Theoretical Connections between Work and Development * Comparative institutional advantage in the context of development * Human freedom and human capital; re-imagining labour law for development * Part II: Addressing social exclusion and discrimination * Gender, equality and capabilities * Problems of gender, violence, development and labour * Promoting social inclusion through anti-discrimination law * Part III: Child poverty and child labour as an obstruction to development * Understanding the economics of child labour * Child labour: What "responsibility" might entail for "responsive" corporations * Part IV: Development through trade and/or aid? * The very basis of our existence: labour and the neglected environmental dimension of sustainable development * Development, the movement of persons, and labour law: trade and aid vs. reasonable labour market access * Part V: Achieving development through social dialogue, corporate social responsibility and other participatory strategies * Corporate Social Responsibility and Participatory Labour Laws * How social dialogue and CSR have met up with traditional international supervision in realizing FPRW * Big trade unions and big business: how might international framework agreements promote sustainable development at a local level? * Afterword
* Introduction * Part I: Theoretical Connections between Work and Development * Comparative institutional advantage in the context of development * Human freedom and human capital; re-imagining labour law for development * Part II: Addressing social exclusion and discrimination * Gender, equality and capabilities * Problems of gender, violence, development and labour * Promoting social inclusion through anti-discrimination law * Part III: Child poverty and child labour as an obstruction to development * Understanding the economics of child labour * Child labour: What "responsibility" might entail for "responsive" corporations * Part IV: Development through trade and/or aid? * The very basis of our existence: labour and the neglected environmental dimension of sustainable development * Development, the movement of persons, and labour law: trade and aid vs. reasonable labour market access * Part V: Achieving development through social dialogue, corporate social responsibility and other participatory strategies * Corporate Social Responsibility and Participatory Labour Laws * How social dialogue and CSR have met up with traditional international supervision in realizing FPRW * Big trade unions and big business: how might international framework agreements promote sustainable development at a local level? * Afterword
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