Labour law and development : characteristics and challenges / Shelley Marshall and Colin Fenwick -- Labour law and development in the long run / Simon Deakin -- Labour regulation, capabilities, and democracy / Kevin Kolben -- Labour law and trade policy : what implications for economic and human...

This book explores the question of whether labour law has a positive role to play in promoting economic development, bringing fresh perspectives to a debate that has raged for many years. It includes chapters from leading scholars in the field and presents views and experiences from Latin...

This book offers a critical reflection on the operation and effects of labour regulation. It articulates the broad goals and extensive potential for it to contribute to inclusive development, while also considering the limits of some areas of regulation and governance

This book offers a critical reflection on the operation and effects of labour regulation. It articulates the broad goals and extensive potential for it to contribute to inclusive development, while also considering the limits of some areas of regulation and governance

We use leximetric data coding techniques and panel data econometrics to test for the economic effects of laws governing worker representation and industrial action in the large middle-income countries of Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. We find that more worker-protective laws on...

This article is about Namibia's new labour law, the Labour Act 2004 (the 2004 Act), which replaces Namibia's first comprehensive post-independence labour law, the Labour Act 1992 (the 1992 Act). Among the more significant changes are new dispute-resolution processes, and the introduction of...

This book examines the institutions and mechanisms for settlement of individual labour disputes in various countries. The number of individual disputes arising from day-to-day workers' grievances or complaints continues to grow in many parts of the world. The chapters in this book cover...