Book Review: International and Comparative Labour Law Current Challenges

The following is a review of the book:

International and Comparative Labour Law 
Current Challenges

Arturo Bronstein
Palgrave macmillan and International Labour Office
International Labour Organization, 2009

ISBN: 978-0-230-22822-1 & 978-92-2-121202-7

The term “labour law” has been often defined, challenged and redefined. It is argued that the aim of labour law has gone through various transformations in the last century that might have stripped it its core identity and even its raison d’être[i]. Furthermore, labour regulations at national level differ from one country to another. The stage of development of a state dictates to a high degree its approach to regulate employment. Its economy structure and its trade relations with the rest of the world both play an important role in shaping its laws governing labour[ii]. Yet, in today’s world, a development or a change in work relations in one country travels across the borders to another with no time, causing alignment and convergence of laws sometimes, conflict and divergence at other times. Thus, although looking at labour laws from an international perspective adds an extra challenge to an already complex and challenging topic due to the different aspects involved and its multifaceted nature, however, the interlink of the world economy today makes it an imperative to use this holistic approach by anyone with serious interest to understand labour law. “International and Comparative Labour Law, Current Challenges” fulfills this task.

Human Trafficking: a brief introduction

Another free e-learning course by VERITE. It introduces the concept of human trafficking in the global supply chain and explains how to identify it, where it exists and what businesses can do to combat human trafficking

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Book Review: Labour Laws & Global Trade

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Labour Laws & Global Trade

Bob Hepple

Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005
ISBN 1-84113-160-1

http://globallawbooks.org/reviews/detail.asp?id=816

Forced Labour: an introduction

This free e-learning course is offered by VERITE. It explains what forced labour is, how it exists in the global economy today, how to identify it and who is affected by it. The statistics provided are eye opener.

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Book Review: L'esprit de Philadelphie: La justice social face au marché total

The following is a review of the book:

 

L'esprit de Philadelphie: La justice social face au marché total

The spirit of Philadelphia: social justice vs. the total market

Alain Supiot

Seuil 2010

ISBN 978-2-02-100776-3

The spirit of Philadelphia: social justice vs. the total market

The ILO 1944 Declaration of Philadelphia[i] marked a historical moment for the international community enshrining the lessons learned after long years of wars and aiming to establish lasting peace and justice for all human kind, a pioneer text at its time that elevated social justice to be the foundation of the international legal order. Over half a century later, Alain Supiot looks at the declaration in light of the ultra-liberal ideology dominating our world today; he argues that the declaration is still relevant today more than ever and demonstrates how we are drifting away from the hard lessons learned in the first half of the 20^th century under illusory promises of free markets, unjustifiable over-dependence on economic and financial indicators and falling into what he calls normative Darwinism.