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…
The position of volunteers in EU-working time law
Description: One aspect also addressed in the Matzak case is the personal scope of the Working Time Directive 2003/88 (WTD), as Mr Matzak is a ‘volunteer firefighter’ and it is not clear if such persons are covered by this piece…
Employment Law and the European Convention on Human Rights: The Research of the Recent Jurisprudence of the ECtHR Related to Employment Law
Description: Employment Law and the European Convention on Human Rights is an indispensable and first-of-its-kind book to extensively survey and analyse recent European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR’s) cases relevant to employment law. It delves deep into the informed structural…
International Labour Rights: Legitimising the International Legal Order
Description: This paper considers the role of international labour rights in an era of globalisation. It begins from Patrick Macklem’s definition of that role in terms of providing the international legal order with a measure of normative legitimacy. It then…
The Normativity of Core Labour Standards through their inclusion in labour provisions of international Trade Agreements: Towards General Principles of International Law
Description: In 1998, Core Labour Standards have been elevated to the status of “fundamental principles and rights at work” by the International Labour Organization, on the justification that they are enshrined within the core values of the international labour law…