Re-Imagining Labour Law for Development

Informationen zum Autor Diamond Ashiagbor is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Klappentext The aim of this book is to explore labour law's conceptual and normative narrative. If labour law is informed by the wider political and economic landscape within which it operates, then given the declining prevalence of the post-war model of full employment within a formal welfare state regime, what shape does or should labour law assume in response to the transformation of the political economy in countries of the global North? Correspondingly, what is the proper role to be played by labour law and labour relations institutions in the development process within industrialising countries of the global South, where informal employment has long been, and remains, the predominant form? Drawing on the expertise of leading labour law scholars, this collection addresses those questions by examining the growth and continued prevalence of informality. Offering research that is both empirically grounded and doctrinally astute, the book explores the changing character of labour law in the global North and South. Vorwort Important new collection looking at one of the key evolutions in labour law; the growth of informalisation Zusammenfassung The aim of this book is to explore labour law's conceptual and normative narrative. If labour law is informed by the wider political and economic landscape within which it operates, then given the declining prevalence of the post-war model of full employment within a formal welfare state regime, what shape does or should labour law assume in response to the transformation of the political economy in countries of the global North? Correspondingly, what is the proper role to be played by labour law and labour relations institutions in the development process within industrialising countries of the global South, where informal employment has long been, and remains, the predominant form? Drawing on the expertise of leading labour law scholars, this collection addresses those questions by examining the growth and continued prevalence of informality. Offering research that is both empirically grounded and doctrinally astute, the book explores the changing character of labour law in the global North and South. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Narratives of Informality and Development Diamond Ashiagbor PART I THEORISING INFORMALITY AND INFORMALISATION: HISTORICAL AND DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES 1. Historicising Labour in Development: Labour Market Formalisation through the Lens of British Colonial Administration Kerry Rittich 2. Labour Law, Development Discourse and the Uses of Informality Liam McHugh-Russell 3. Informalisation in International Labour Regulation Policy: Profiles of an Unravelling Deirdre McCann PART II INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES: HISTORICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ECONOMY 4. Do Human Rights Work for Informal Workers? Supriya Routh 5. Labour Law as a Luxury in the Global South? A Case Study from Zimbabwe Pamhidzai H Bamu 6. Insiders, Outsiders and Conflicts of Interest Ruth Dukes 7. The Different Meanings of Formalisation. Experiments from the South: The Case of Argentina Lorena Poblete 8. Supply Chains and Temporary Migrant Labour: The Relevance of Trade and Sustainability Frameworks Tonia Novitz PART III EMPIRICAL APPROACHES: REGULATING INFORMALITY 9. What is Actually Regulating Work? A Study of Restaurants in Indonesia and Australia Petra Mahy, Richard Mitchell, John Howe and Maria Azzurra Tranfaglia 10. Labour Laws, Informality, and Development: Comparing India and China Introduction: Narratives of Informality and Development
Diamond Ashiagbor

PART I
THEORISING INFORMALITY AND INFORMALISATION: HISTORICAL AND DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES

1. Historicising Labour in Development: Labour Market Formalisation through the Lens of British Colonial Administration
   Kerry Rittich
2. Labour Law, Development Discourse and the Uses of Informality
   Liam McHugh-Russell
3. Informalisation in International Labour Regulation Policy: Profiles of an Unravelling
   Deirdre McCann

PART II
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES: HISTORICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
4. Do Human Rights Work for Informal Workers?
Supriya Routh
5. Labour Law as a Luxury in the Global South? A Case Study from Zimbabwe
Pamhidzai H Bamu
6. Insiders, Outsiders and Conflicts of Interest
Ruth Dukes
7. The Different Meanings of Formalisation. Experiments from the South: The Case of Argentina
Lorena Poblete
8. Supply Chains and Temporary Migrant Labour: The Relevance of Trade and Sustainability Frameworks
Tonia Novitz

PART III
EMPIRICAL APPROACHES: REGULATING INFORMALITY
9. What is Actually Regulating Work? A Study of Restaurants in Indonesia and Australia
Petra Mahy, Richard Mitchell, John Howe and Maria Azzurra Tranfaglia
10. Labour Laws, Informality, and Development: Comparing India and China
Simon Deakin, Shelley Marshall and Sanjay Pinto