Dockers and Seafarers: What the Politics of Spatial Embeddedness and Geographical Scale Have Meant for Union Organizing in the European Maritime Trades

This article (in 37 Lab. Stud. J. 203 (2012)) considers the strategic challenges of labor organizing within maritime trades, with a conceptual focus on labor geography. It explores how mobility and …

Cross-Border Trade Union Action in a Canadian Multinational Corporation

This article (in  27 Int’l J. Comp. Lab. L. & Indus. Rel. 271 (2011)) examines the import of international framework agreements (IFAs) and European framework agreements (EFAs) as instruments of …

The State of Workers’ Rights in Nigeria: An Examination of the Banking, Oil and Gas and Telecommunication Sectors

This study examines the rights of workers in Nigeria. The study focuses on workers in three sectors of the economy: banking, oil and gas, and telecommunication. Through empirical data, the …

Between Fragmentation and Globalization: U.S. Public Sector Unions and International Labor Cooperation

This article (in 35 Lab. Stud. J. 364 (2010)) explores the import of public-sector unions in cultivating transnational labor campaigns, as well as the challenges that development has entailed. Langevin …

A Bitter Cup – the Exploitation of Tea Workers in India and Kenya Supplying British Supermarkets

The report shows the labor problems under global supply chains context. The report points out that the tea workers in Kenya and India are suffering low wages, bad working conditions …

The Limits of Supply Chain Responsibility: A Critical Analysis of Corporate Responsibility Instruments

Article inquires specifically around sub-contracting, especially what is a brand’s or a buyer’s responsibility regarding workers’ rights beyond its first tier suppliers. This article reviews 12 prominent CSR instruments and …

The Economics of Being Young and Poor: How Homeless Youth Survive in Neo-liberal Times

Canadian government study that explores the employment experiences of homeless youth, and how homelessness affects where they work, and how they live. It has some useful definitions in defining “informal” …

Australia: The Sex Discrimination Act- Advancing Gender Equality and Decent Work?

This article addresses the reasons sex discrimination is hindered from becoming a mainstream issue in employment law.  This article also discussed how to achieve gender equality, drawing on several principles …

Promoting Fundamental Labor Rights through International Framework Agreements: Practical Outcomes and Present Challenges

Drouin finds hope in Global Framework Agreements’ ability to promote labor rights and increase workplace democracy. She documents several of these agreements, including agreements between the International Union of Food …

Labor Relations in the National Hockey League: A Model of Transnational Collective Bargaining

This article (IN 20 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 147 (2009)) explores the structure of the National Hockey League’s labor relations system, which covers a labor sector extending from the United …