This edited collection examines the multi-faceted ways in which labour standards can play a role in the achievement of development. A variety of critical perspectives are presented here, with contributions from a number of different disciplines, including law, politics, and economics. The book begins by considering potential theoretical connections between work and development, acknowledging controversy over how the latter should be approached, interpreted and
rendered 'sustainable'. The remainder of the collection is devoted to an analysis of the part that protection of labour standards can play in developmental terms, with reference to concrete issues:
anti-discrimination, child labour, trade relations, and social dialogue. The book concludes with a final chapter, reflecting on how theory has been and could be put into practice. The theme that transcends all the contributions to this collection is that of human agency. The authors are not merely interested in the realisation of an individual person's 'functioning' in society (which development will assist), but also with the ways that people can be engaged in the very process of
defining what development aims should and can be. They do not wish to see economic, social and environmental development objectives as being determined by technical experts and implemented according to
their prescriptions. Rather, they consider development in procedural as well as substantive terms, and in participatory as well as material terms.
This edited collection examines the multi-faceted ways in which labour standards can play a role in the achievement of development. A variety of critical perspectives are presented here, with contributions from a number of different disciplines, including law, politics, and economics. The book begins by considering potential theoretical connections between work and development, acknowledging controversy over how the latter should be approached, interpreted and
rendered 'sustainable'. The remainder of the collection is devoted to an analysis of the part that protection of labour standards can play in developmental terms, with reference to concrete issues:
anti-discrimination, child labour, trade relations, and social dialogue. The book concludes with a final chapter, reflecting on how theory has been and could be put into practice. The theme that transcends all the contributions to this collection is that of human agency. The authors are not merely interested in the realisation of an individual person's 'functioning' in society (which development will assist), but also with the ways that people can be engaged in the very process of
defining what development aims should and can be. They do not wish to see economic, social and environmental development objectives as being determined by technical experts and implemented according to
their prescriptions. Rather, they consider development in procedural as well as substantive terms, and in participatory as well as material terms.
Tonia Novitz and David Mangan: Introduction
Part I: Theoretical Connections between Work and Development
Bob Hepple: Comparative institutional advantage in the context of
development
Brian Langille: Human freedom and human capital; re-imagining
labour law for development
Part II: Addressing social exclusion and discrimination
Judy Fudge: Gender, equality and capabilities
Jacqui True: Problems of gender, violence, development and
labour
Mark Bell: Promoting social inclusion through anti-discrimination
law
Part III: Child poverty and child labour as an obstruction to
development
Sonia Bhalotra: Understanding the economics of child labour
Surya Deva: Child labour: What "responsibility" might entail for
"responsive" corporations
Part IV: Development through trade and/or aid?
Beate Sjafjell: The very basis of our existence: labour and the
neglected environmental dimension of sustainable development
Adelle Blackett: Development, the movement of persons, and labour
law: trade and aid vs. reasonable labour market access
Part V: Achieving development through social dialogue, corporate
social responsibility and other participatory strategies
Charlotte Villiers: Corporate Social Responsibility and
Participatory Labour Laws
David Tajgman: How social dialogue and CSR have met up with
traditional international supervision in realizing FPRW
Tonia Novitz: Big trade unions and big business: how might
international framework agreements promote sustainable development
at a local level?
Rolph van der Hoeven: Afterword
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*
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