The Role of Labour Standards in Development

From theory to sustainable practice

Tonia Novitz, David Mangan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-726491-1 (ISBN)

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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 edited collection examines the multi-faceted ways in which labour standards can play a role in the achievement of development. A variety of critical perspectives are presented here, with contributions from a number of different disciplines, including law, politics, and economics. The book begins by considering potential theoretical connections between work and development, acknowledging controversy over how the latter should be approached, interpreted and rendered 'sustainable'. The remainder of the collection is devoted to an analysis of the part that protection of labour standards can play in developmental terms, with reference to concrete issues: anti-discrimination, child labour, trade relations, and social dialogue. The book concludes with a final chapter, reflecting on how theory has been and could be put into practice.
The theme that transcends all the contributions to this collection is that of human agency. The authors are not merely interested in the realisation of an individual person's 'functioning' in society (which development will assist), but also with the ways that people can be engaged in the very process of defining what development aims should and can be. They do not wish to see economic, social and environmental development objectives as being determined by technical experts and implemented according to their prescriptions. Rather, they consider development in procedural as well as substantive terms, and in participatory as well as material terms.

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.

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

Reihe/Serie	British Academy Original Paperbacks
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 234 mm
Gewicht	432 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-19-726491-3 / 0197264913
ISBN-13	978-0-19-726491-1 / 9780197264911
Zustand	Neuware