During the last decade, the approach by business and governments towards labour and social issues at the global level has fundamentally changed. Industrial relations are rapidly internationalizing by developing new actors and forms of governance to deal with the regulation of labour. This paper...

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 debate about measuring the degree of internationalization of firms has not solved the question about the usefulness of having one index on the internationalization of firms. This article argues in favour of constructing indices, if the components of those are theoretically and empirically...