Research Handbook on Labour, Business and Human Rights Law

Edited by Janice R. Bellace, Samuel Blank Professor of Legal Studies, University of Pennsylvania, US and Beryl ter Haar, Professor and Head of the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS), University of Warsaw, Poland and Endowed Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Contents:

PART I Conceptualizing Labour and Human Rights Law
1. Perspectives on Labour and Human Rights
Janice Bellace and Beryl ter Haar

PART II Sources in National Law
Section A: Civil Law and Constitutional Sources
2. Fundamental Rights and German Labor Law
Manfred Weiss

3. (The Right to) Work as foundational value: Italy and the Very Notion of a Constitutional Promise
Edoardo Ales

4. Fundamental labour rights in Brazil: challenges and developments
Ana Virginia Moreira Gomes

5. Business, Labor Law and Human Rights in Japan
Takashi Yonezu

6. Fundamental Rights and Swedish Labour Law
Mia Rönnmar

Section B: Common Law
7. Worker Rights as Human Rights: Regenerative Reconception or Rhetorical Refuge?
Matthew Finkin

8. Business and labour, and human rights in New Zealand
Amanda Reilly and Jonathan Barrett

9. The architecture of human rights at work in Israeli law
Guy Mundlak

10. Human Rights in the evolution of South African labour law
Darcy du Toit and Mariam Sirkhotte

Section C: Transition Economies
11. Labor Disputes in China from a Fundamental Labor Rights Perspective
Piotr Grzebyk

12. Trying to balance economic and labour rights: the case of Russia
Nikita Lyutov and Elena Gerasimova

PART IIIFundamental Rights
Section A: Concepts
13. Freedom of Association: its emergence and the case for prevention of its decline
Tonia Novitz

14. Freedom from child labour: a fundamental right
Constance Thomas

15. Workplace gender equality as a human right: the ILO approach
Jane Aeberhard-Hodges

Section B: Supranational Influences
16. How the ILO embraced human rights
Lee Swepston

17. The European convention on human rights, as a fountain of labour rights
Filip Dorssemont

18. Labour Human Rights and the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Miguel F. Canessa Montejo

Section C: Scope and Coverage
19. Fundamental Labour Rights, Platform Work and Human Rights Protection of Non-Standard Workers
Valerio de Stefano and Antonio Aloisi

20. Decent Work Challenges for Atypical Workers in Korea
Christina Hiessl and Jaewook Nahm

PART IV Business and Human Rights
21. From Workers’ Rights to Human Rights at Work
Janice Bellace

22. Multinational Enterprises and Labor Rights: Concepts and Implementation
Nicolas Bueno

23. The EU’s CSR policy in a global and national context
Beryl ter Haar and Attila Kun

24. State Extraterritorial Regulation and Decent Work in the Asia Pacific
John Howe and Ingrid Landau

Index