Contribution to Book
Making Bricks Without Straw: The Creation of a Transnational Labour Regime
Critical Legal Perspectives on Global Governance. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2014.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Disciplines
Abstract
This essay suggest that attempts to create a transnational regime of labour regulation have been frustrated by a series of related and mutually reinforcing developments: the incapacity or unwillingness of states to intervene in labour markets; changes in those markets associated with globalization and post-‐industrial capitalism; the decline of the “standard employment contract”; the demise of working class consciousness, solidarity and power; and the shift from “hard” to “soft” labour law. It concludes with a proposal for three-‐part strategy of reinventing labour law in the new dispensation: by enlarging its intellectual ambition; expanding its clientele; and extending its spatial reach.
Citation Information
Harry Arthurs. "Making Bricks Without Straw: The Creation of a Transnational Labour Regime" Critical Legal Perspectives on Global Governance. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2014. (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/harry_arthurs/147/
This is a draft paper, not the final published version, and should not be cited. Cite the final published version, which can be found on the Bloomsbury site.