Research Handbook on Labour, Business and Human Rights Law

Edited by Janice R. Bellace, Samuel Blank Professor Emerita of Legal Studies, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, and Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US and Beryl ter Haar, Professor and Head of the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS), University of Warsaw, Poland and Endowed Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

'This timely collection offers a comprehensive study of the interaction between human rights and labour protection, a topic given additional impetus from the impact of economic globalisation on labour creating the need to find new ways for protecting the rights and conditions of increasingly precarious workers worldwide. Including an extensive range of country-based studies, covering all the major legal families, international developments and thought-provoking analytical papers, this book provides a critically balanced and highly informative contribution to the topic.'--Peter Muchlinski, SOAS, University of London, UK'Labour law and human rights law often follow separate paths and academics rarely engage with one another notwithstanding that the two fields are highly interrelated. This excellent edited volume bridges this gap and makes an important contribution to current debates on the intersection between labour law and human rights law. This is especially important in a world witnessing crucial transformations in the world of work. It is a must read for all scholars involved in research on labour rights.'--Axel Marx, University of Leuven, Belgium

• Contents:PART I Conceptualizing Labour and Human Rights Law 1. Perspectives on Labour and Human Rights Janice Bellace and Beryl ter HaarPART II Sources in National Law Section A: Civil Law and Constitutional Sources 2. Fundamental Rights and German Labor LawManfred Weiss3. (The Right to) Work as foundational value: Italy and the Very Notion of a Constitutional PromiseEdoardo Ales4. Fundamental labour rights in Brazil: challenges and developmentsAna Virginia Moreira Gomes5. Business, Labor Law and Human Rights in JapanTakashi Yonezu6. Fundamental Rights and Swedish Labour LawMia RönnmarSection B: Common Law 7. Worker Rights as Human Rights: Regenerative Reconception or Rhetorical Refuge?Matthew Finkin8. Business and labour, and human rights in New ZealandAmanda Reilly and Jonathan Barrett9. The architecture of human rights at work in Israeli lawGuy Mundlak10. Human Rights in the evolution of South African labour lawDarcy du Toit and Mariam SirkhotteSection C: Transition Economies11. Labor Disputes in China from a Fundamental Labor Rights PerspectivePiotr Grzebyk12. Trying to balance economic and labour rights: the case of RussiaNikita Lyutov and Elena GerasimovaPART IIIFundamental RightsSection A: Concepts 13. Freedom of Association: its emergence and the case for prevention of its declineTonia Novitz14. Freedom from child labour: a fundamental rightConstance Thomas15. Workplace gender equality as a human right: the ILO approachJane Aeberhard-HodgesSection B: Supranational Influences 16. How the ILO embraced human rightsLee Swepston17. The European convention on human rights, as a fountain of labour rightsFilip Dorssemont18. Labour Human Rights and the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human RightsMiguel F. Canessa MontejoSection C: Scope and Coverage19. Fundamental Labour Rights, Platform Work and Human Rights Protection of Non-Standard WorkersValerio de Stefano and Antonio Aloisi20. Decent Work Challenges for Atypical Workers in KoreaChristina Hiessl and Jaewook NahmPART IV Business and Human Rights21. From Workers’ Rights to Human Rights at WorkJanice Bellace22. Multinational Enterprises and Labor Rights: Concepts and Implementation Nicolas Bueno 23. The EU’s CSR policy in a global and national contextBeryl ter Haar and Attila Kun24. State Extraterritorial Regulation and Decent Work in the Asia PacificJohn Howe and Ingrid LandauIndex