Living wage : regulatory solutions to informal and precarious work in global supply chains /
This timely work presents a plan for the incremental increase of minimum wages across all nations and a method for their enforcement though a new international labour law.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2019.
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| Series: | Oxford labour law.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Series; Living Wage; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The Problem and a Quick Insight into a Possible Solution; 1.2 Definitions; 1.3 Why Does Informality Matter? Policy Importance; 1.4 Global Search for Policy Responses; 1.5 Approach to Studying Informality Adopted in This Book; 2. How can Regulation Help?; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 What is Regulation?; 2.3 What Does it Mean to Say that Regulation is Responsive?; 2.4 The Failure of State-Based Labour Regulation to Respond to Changes in the Nature of Work
- 2.5 Labour Regulation and the Dynamics of Institutional Change2.6 Conclusion; 3. New Approaches to the Study of the Regulation of Work; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Case-Study Methodology; 3.3 Primary Case-Study Approach: Historical Institutionalism; 3.4 Other Disciplines and Methods; 3.5 Conclusion; 4. Displacement of Traditional Labour Laws: Mathadi Boards in Maharashtra, India; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Dynamics of Informalization; 4.3 Dynamics of Formalization; 4.4 Conclusion; 5. Expansion and Layering of Labour Regulation: Apparel Industry in Australia; 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Dynamics of Informalization5.3 Dynamics of Formalization; 5.4 Conclusion; 6. Expansion of Labour Laws in Bulgaria; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Dynamics of Informalization; 6.3 Dynamics of Formalization; 6.4 Conclusion; 7. Complementary or Functional Rival? Labour Regulation of Garment Industry Workers in Cambodia by Better Factories Cambodia; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Dynamics of Informalization; 7.3 Dynamics of Formalization; 7.4 Assessment; 7.5 Conclusion; 8. Four Experiments in Reducing Informality: Realizable Models of Institutional Change; 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Institutional Evolution: Expansion, Complementarity, Rivalry, and Displacement8.3 Conclusion; 9. A Long-Term Vision: Scaling up Experiments and Overcoming Orchestration Deficits to Reduce Informality; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 First Pathway: Promoting a Global Living Wage; 9.3 Second Pathway: National Supply Chain Tribunals; 9.4 Third Pathway: Local Bridges out of Informality; 9.5 A Defence of the Proposal; 9.6 Conclusion; 10. Conclusions; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Overlapping Dynamics of Informalization; 10.3 The Impetus for a New International Labour Law; Bibliography; Index