The role of labour standards in development : from theory to sustainable practice?
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The role of labour standards in development : from theory to sustainable practice?
（British Academy original paperback）
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Comparative institutional advantage in the context of development / Bob Hepple
- Human freedom and human capital : re-imagining labour law for development / Brian Langille
- Gender, equality and capabilities : care work and sustainable development / Judy Fudge
- The political economy of women's human rights : problems of gender, violence, development and labour / Jacqui True
- Promoting equality through social inclusion : case studies from the European social charter / Mark Bell
- Some remarks on the economics of child labour / Sonia Bhalotra
- Child labour : an analysis of the nature of corporate responsibility / Surya Deva
- The very basis of our existence : labour and the neglected environmental dimension of sustainable development / Beate Sjåfjell
- Development, the movement of persons and labour law : reasonable labour market access and its decent work complement / Adelle Blackett
- Corporate social responsibility : its potential and its limits for labour participation / Charlotte Villiers
- Corporate social responsibility meets traditional supervision of fundamental labour rights : why CSR needs social dialogue to fill the governance gaps / David Tajgman
- Big unions and big business : can international framework agreements promote sustainable development at a local level? / Tonia Novitz
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- PART I: THEORETICAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN WORK AND DEVELOPMENT
- PART II: ADDRESSING SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND DISCRIMINATION
- PART III: CHILD POVERTY AND CHILD LABOUR AS AN OBSTRUCTION TO DEVELOPMENT
- PART IV: DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TRADE AND/OR AID?
- PART V: ACHIEVING DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SOCIAL DIALOGUE, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND OTHER PARTICIPATORY STRATEGIES
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