Trade Unions, immigration and immigrants in Europe revisited: Unions’ attitudes and actions under new conditions

This paper is a follow-up report of the authors’ comparative approach used in their book “Trade Unions, Immigration and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993. New York: Berghahn Books.”  The report examines trade …

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Mongolia: Survey on Implementation Status of the Collective Agreements and Collective Bargaining

This is the first extensive research on collective agreements and collective bargaining implementation in Mongolia. The research examined the implementation of laws and practice of collective bargaining and collective agreements. …

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PAKISTAN: INTERACTION OF LABOR LAW AND ECONOMIC GROWTH – CASE STUDY OF SHEIKHUPURA

This case study focuses on the nexus between federal/provincial labor laws and the welfare and productivity of laborers in the context of the Pakistani city of Sheikhupura. The study notes …

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Article from the Editor: “Embarrassment: The New Union-Organizing Tool”

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mare.30011 From the author: “In recent years, unions and other third parties have heavily used public embarrassment as a means of organizing employees. The key to conventional union organizing is …

Wages, Collective Bargaining and Economic Development in Germany (Towards a more expansive and solidaristic development?)

Trade union role in determination of wage through collective bargaining has decreased significantly in the last decade in Germany. However, with the introduction of minimum wage at the national level …

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Chain liability in multitier supply chains? Responsibility attributions for unsustainable supplier behavior

When it becomes publicly known that products are associated with suppliers that engage in unsustainable behaviors, consumers protest, as Nestlé, Zara, and Kimberly Clark, among others, have learned. The phenomenon …

Gender analysis of the Russian labor market

This research paper examines gender discrimination in Russia, including widespread inequality in pay. The research paper also contains statistical employment information disaggregated by gender. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280745063_Gender_analysis_of_the_Russian_labor_market

Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice at Home: Nepal

Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice Series (Open Society Foundations), 2014, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-22 This report summarizes a two-year study on how Nepal regulates …

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The Rights of the Migrant Workers in Taiwan from the Perspective of Political Philosophy of International Human Rights – the Interaction and Conflicts between Human Rights, Labor Market, and Industrial Competitiveness

Abstract: “Ever since the open of blue-collar foreign labors in the beginning of 1990s, supplementary principle, quota regulation and avoidance of impacts toward domestic labors still plays the crucial role …

Investing in Human Rights: Using Bilateral Investment Treaties to Hold Multinational Corporations Liable for Labor Rights Violations

Hang contextualizes recent labor violations by multinational corporations in light of Chinese labor law and the development of bilateral investment treaties (BITs). She contends that BITs have provided inadequate protections …

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