Consent to Labour Exploitation
Description: This article argues there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the role of consent to labour exploitation. However, there is significant value in considering the theoretical underpinnings of different legal interventions addressing labour exploitation. The article first explores different theoretical…
Please Give Me a Remedy: Women Human Rights Defenders Mobilize for Occupational Safety and Health
Description: This article investigates the strategies that women human rights defenders use to engage in legal mobilization and overcome gendered barriers to justice. It does so through analysis of a specific health and safety dispute involving women workers and the…
Employee Status Preconditions: A Critical Assessment
Description: Much has been written about the legal tests that exclude independent contractors from employment and labor law coverage. Less attention has been devoted to courts’ use of classification processes that invoke some preliminary requirements (i.e. preconditions for employee status)…
Shaping Contracts for Work: The Normative Influence of Terms Implied by Law
Description: Dr. Gabrielle Golding’s Oxford University Press monograph, the “Shaping Contracts for Work: The Normative Influence of Terms Implied by Law” can be found at the link below: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/shaping-contracts-for-work-9780192867827?cc=ch&lang=en& The work provides an in-depth examination of the common law’s role…
Contesting Racial Wages
Description: This Article uses archival research to recover the important work of John P.Davis, the Negro Industrial League (NIL), and the Joint Committee on National Recovery (JCNR) as they fought for a racially just New Deal and substantive equality in…
Work Beyond the Pandemic
Description: Please find attached the flyer of “Work Beyond the Pandemic”, just published by Palgrave Macmillan, prompted by the XX Conference in memory of Marco Biagi. Other
From the Trenches Labour Standards Provisions in EU Free Trade Agreements: Reflections on the European Commission’s Reform Agenda
Description: Labour standards provisions within the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters of EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are presented as a key element of the EU’s commitment to a ‘value-based trade agenda’. But criticism of TSD chapters has led…
The Trade-Labour Nexus: Global Value Chains and Labour Provisions in European Union Free Trade Agreements
Description: Labour standards provisions contained within the European Union’s (EU) free trade agreements (FTAs) are a major iteration of attempts to regulate working conditions in the global economy. This article develops an analysis of how the legal and institutional mechanisms…