Various production and services sectors which entail intensive use of labour and relatively low wages are already being undermined and downgraded to a migrant workforce by large-scale flows of migration and the fast development and expansion of globalization. Because of the various changes...

This chapter for the Encyclopedia of Labor and Employment Law and Economics, discusses government regulation of the labor market in the 21st Century, with a particular emphasis on the need to maintain competitiveness in an era of globalization. The chapter first considers the 'race to the...

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) movement and Fair Trade systems have grown in the past decade, reflecting a belief that corporations operating at a global level must voluntarily assume the role of raising production and trade standards and that consumers should play a role in...