How far can organization-specific industrial relations coexist with national industrial relations systems? This article adopts a novel perspective on this question by looking at organizations which are outside any national framework of industrial relations. Two case studies of employment...

The paper gives an overview of the global labor debate. In the first part we summarize the debate on globalization and labor, followed by a discussion on two contested issues of global labor regulation. These are first the effectiveness of soft law and second the issue of labor rights as...

The paper explores the role of social partnership for facilitating processes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Social partnership can help to facilitate the transition to lower emissions by negotiating the costs and benefits of climate reducing policies with the workers affected. At...