Global Justice and International Labour Rights

Presents innovative perspectives on the moral and legal obligations of individuals and institutions toward workers in the global era.

Yossi Dahan (Edited by), Hanna Lerner (Edited by), Faina Milman-Sivan (Edited by)

9781107458154, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2018

312 pages
22.8 x 15 x 1.7 cm, 0.47 kg

Despite the growing global consensus regarding the need to ensure minimal labour standards, such as adequate safety and health conditions, freedom of association, and the prohibition of child labour, millions of workers across the world continue to work in horrific conditions. Who should be held responsible, both morally and legally, for protecting workers' rights? What moral and legal obligations should individuals and institutions bear towards foreign workers in their countries? Is there any democratic way to generate, regulate, and enforce labour standards in a global labour market? This book addresses these questions by taking a fresh look at the normative assumptions underlying existing and proposed international labour regulations. By focusing on international labour as a particular sphere of justice, it seeks to advance both the contemporary philosophical debate on global justice and the legal scholarship on international labour.

1. Introduction Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner and Faina Milman-Sivan
Part I. Justice in a Global Labour Market: Philosophical Foundations: 2. Global labour injustice: a critical overview Miriam Ronzoni
3. Global labour rights as duties of justice Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner and Faina Milman-Sivan
4. How should we conceive of individual consumer responsibility to address labour injustices? Christian Barry and Kate Macdonald
Part II. International Labour Law as a Sphere of Justice: 5. Justice in a globalizing world: resolving conflicts between workers' rights beyond the nation state Judy Fudge and Guy Mundlak
6. Union responsibility to migrant workers: a global justice approach Einat Albin
7. The narrative of global justice and the grammar of law Brian Langille
8. To what duties do global labour rights correlate?: responsibility for labour standards down the production chain Alan Hyde
Part III. Global Governance, Democracy and International Labour: 9. Institutional change in transnational labour governance: implementing social standards in public procurement and export credit guarantees Anke Hassel and Nicole Helmerich
10. Democratic management and international labour rights Carol C. Gould.

Subject Areas: Employment & labour law [LNH], International human rights law [LBBR], Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Law [L]