The Role of Labour Standards in Development

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.

The multi-disciplinary nature of the book, as well as the practical approach taken by many of the authors, is to be commended... While the essays in this book depart from a common basis, they move in different directions and cover a wide variety of topics and approaches. Rebecca Zahn, International and Comparative Law Quarterly

• IntroductionPart I: Theoretical Connections between Work and DevelopmentComparative institutional advantage in the context of developmentHuman freedom and human capital; re-imagining labour law for developmentPart II: Addressing social exclusion and discriminationGender, equality and capabilitiesProblems of gender, violence, development and labourPromoting social inclusion through anti-discrimination lawPart III: Child poverty and child labour as an obstruction to developmentUnderstanding the economics of child labourChild labour: What "responsibility" might entail for "responsive" corporationsPart IV: Development through trade and/or aid?The very basis of our existence: labour and the neglected environmental dimension of sustainable developmentDevelopment, the movement of persons, and labour law: trade and aid vs. reasonable labour market accessPart V: Achieving development through social dialogue, corporate social responsibility and other participatory strategiesCorporate Social Responsibility and Participatory Labour LawsHow social dialogue and CSR have met up with traditional international supervision in realizing FPRWBig trade unions and big business: how might international framework agreements promote sustainable development at a local level?Afterword