The Elgar companion to decent work and the sustainable development goals

1 Online-Ressource (682 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents: 1. Introduction to the challenges of decent work and the sustainable development goals / Madelaine Moore, Christoph Scherrer and Marcel van der Linden -- Historical and conceptual foundations of decent work and the sdgs -- 2. Decent work's place among the sdgs: Contribution by the international labour organization / Eva Senghaas-Knobloch -- 3. The genesis of the decent work agenda / Tânia Ferraro -- 4. Unravelling capitalist structuring conditions: Limits of the decent work agenda / Andreas Bieler -- 5. Competing conceptualizations of decent work: Measurement and policy coherence challenges / Erica Di Ruggiero -- 6. Measuring decent work / Léa Renard and Bénédicte Zimmermann -- Development of working conditions in/outside standard work -- 7. The evolution of standard work / Paul Schoukens, Eleni De Becker and Charlotte Bruynseraede -- 8. The workplace / Narayan Prasad and Nausheen Nizami -- 9. Wages: Functions, types, inequalities / Maarten van Klaveren -- 10. Work without protection: Informal work / Jan Breman and Marcel van der Linden -- 11. Unemployment - underemployment / Gerhard Bosch -- 12. Unfree labour within and beyond the decent work agenda / Anne Lisa Carstensen -- 13. Reproductive work against productivism from the decent work agenda to the sdgs / Alessandra Mezzadri -- 14. Valuing domestic labour: The changing meanings of 'housework' under capitalism / Indu Agnihotri -- Development of working conditions of specific social groups -- 15. Women workers / Madhumita Dutta and Sirisha C. Naidu -- 16. Migrant workers / Helen Schwenken -- 17. Child workers / Ben White -- 18 Africa: Young people between insecurity and the aspiration for decent jobs / Babacar Fall -- 19. People with disabilities / Felix Welti -- 20. Challenges of decent work for smallholders and agricultural workers: Reflections on the global south / Praveen Jha -- Drivers of decent work deficits -- 21. Three windows on decent work: Theories of labour relations / Chris Tilly -- 22. Uneven and combined development and decent work / Ronaldo Munck -- 23. International labour migration and decent work / Immanuel Ness -- 24. Labour, social upgrading and indecent work in global value chains / Kristoffer Marslev and Cornelia Staritz -- Public and corporate enforcement mechanisms of decent work -- 25. Navigating globalization: Examining the ilo's efforts to promote decent work / Faradj Koliev -- 26. The ILO and the promotion of social dialogue at the global and national level / Yvonne Rueckert -- 27. The elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work: ILO convention no. 190 / Reingard Zimmer -- 28. Securing compliance with standards of occupational health and safety: Labour inspection and its challenges / David Walters -- 29. Trade agreements and decent work / Christoph Scherrer -- 30. Corporate due diligence in global value chains / Christian Scheper -- 31. The efficacy of market-driven voluntary governance mechanisms for decent work / Tim Connor, Kate Macdonald and Shelley Marshall -- 32. Regional integration: A promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda? / Roland Erne, Mark Anner, Michele Ford, Tamara Kay and Vincenzo Maccarrone -- Bottom-up enforcement mechanisms and decent work -- 33. Trade unions and decent work / Greg Patmore -- 34. Trade unions as organised forms of labour movements: Why this matters in liberal democracies / Peter Fairbrother and Karen Douglas -- 35. Strikes and decent work / Jörg Nowak -- 36. Collective representation of precarious workers: What has the decent work agenda got to do with it? / Edlira Xhafa and Melisa R. Serrano -- 37. Worker organizing in the global south: An experimental trend / Lynford Dor and Edward Webster -- 38. Transnational regulation of decent work through global framework agreements: A collective instrument of worker voice / Michael Fichter -- 39. The power of boycotts / Allyson P. Brantley -- New challenges to the decent work agenda -- 40. The role of labour and nature within just transition strategies / Nora Räthzel and Dimitris Stevis -- 41. Work health and safety, adaptation, and climate change / Elizabeth Humphrys -- 42. Degrowth and decent work / Birte Strunk -- 43. Future of work and global trends: Reframing the debate in an age of state capitalism and systemic competition / Frederick Harry Pitts and Huw Thomas -- 44. The technopolitics of decent digital work / Simon Schaupp -- 45. Digital labour platforms and their contribution to development outcomes / Uma Rani, Rishabh Kumar Dhir and Nora Gobel -- Alternatives to workplace-related rights -- 46. Decent work and welfare states: Two sides of the same coin? / Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Leonid Shvyrev and Jakub Sowula -- 47. Social protection floors as a knowledge object: Examining their place within the decent work and sustainable development agenda / John Berten and Alexandra Kaasch -- 48. Universal versus employment-based social protection? / Gabriele Koehler -- 49. Size matters: Universal basic income as a strategy for decent work / Ruth Castel-Branco and Nicolas Pons-Vignon -- The future of the decent work agenda -- 50. No future for decent work without the right to strike / Frank Hoffer.

10.4337/9781035300907 [DOI]

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