Thailand at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in Leveraging Migration for Development

This article gives an introduction about the issue brief which examines the country’s migration challenges ahead and the two basic approaches to regularizing labor migration: Memoranda of Understanding with migrant-sending …

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Enforcement of International Framework Agreements under U.S. Law

Goldman proposes methods to convert the “soft law” of Global Framework Agreements into enforceable “hard law.” He describes enforcement under the U.S. Labor Management Relations Act, contract theories, consumer protection …

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UK; EU: “Identifying ‘Exploitative Compromises’: The Role of Labour Law in Resolving Disputes Between Workers”

Both at the policy level and at the workplace level, the interests of labor are not always a unified set of interests versus employers with capital in the traditional “labour …

Discrimination in the field of labor and employment in Russia

This article explains that young people and people over 45 years old are discriminated against in the labor market. The article also explains that although it is prohibited in Russia, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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