Description: Tonia Novitz’s new book was published in the Edward Elgar Labour Law series, Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development: Leaving No One in the World of Work Behind. The book is now available in hard copy and as an e-book.…
Description: The book is available at the following link: Publication: – includes 25 country reports describing how (on a social and labour market level) individual countries (also from outside the EU) have dealt with the mass influx of people…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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
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…