Labor and Finance as Inevitably Transnational: Globalization Demands a Sophisticated and Transnational Lens

This article (in 41 San Diego L. Rev. 109 (2004)) examines how globalization has impacted labor and finance law, as well as responses to this impact. It explores two points …

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National Labor Movements and Transnational Connections: Global Labor’s Evolving Architecture Under Neoliberalism

Evans analyzes international ties between Bridgestone-Firestone workers in Liberia, apparel workers in Honduras, Mexican mineworkers, and U.S. labor organizations. Evans suggests that international cooperation depends on national labor movements and …

Labor’s Soft Means and Hard Challenges: Fundamental Discrepancies and the Promise of Non-Binding Arbitration for International Framework Agreements

Marzan describes Global Framework Agreements and explores some obstacles, including disagreements between parties. He explores one solution, non-binding arbitration based on ILO rules. Non-binding arbitration can be one step to …

South Africa: THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK: Challenges and Strategies — Restriction and Solidarity in the New South Africa: COSATU’s Complex Response to Migration and Migrant Workers in the Post-Apartheid Era

The report first provides a historical overview of migrant labor and migration policy, introduces South Africa’s labor market institutions and industrial relations and the weakness of the corporatist institution. Then …

Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice at Home: Indonesia

Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice Series (Open Society Foundations), UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2013-75 This comprehensive study analyzes the mechanisms through which Indonesian migrant workers can seek justice in …

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Varieties of Power in Transnational Labor Alliances: An Analysis of Workers’ Structural, Institutional, and Coalitional Power in the Global Economy

This article (in 38 Lab. Stud. J. 181 (2013)) Brookes identifies three kinds of power (structural, institutional, and coalitional) that workers exercise in transnational campaigns. Brookes weighs the strengths of …

Dealing with Employment Termination in China

An article dealing with the issue of employment termination in China for the education of multinational companies. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework to multinational companies …

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Article: “Brazil’s ‘dirty list’ names and shames companies involved in slave labour”

This is a newspaper article describing a Brazilian initiative against slave labor in supply chains. Since 1995, Brazil has a labor inspections program that visit sites to check workers’ conditions. …

Canada: Monrose v. Double Diamond Acres Limited (2013 HRTO 1273)

Not only did the tribunal award damages for the worker’s lost wages, but also non-pecuniary damages for the worker’s loss of dignity, feelings and self-respect for discriminatory treatment he experienced …

South Korea: Court decision setting forth the factors to be determined as a worker (Case Number: 2011Da44276)

This is a court decision which sets forth the criteria for determining worker status under the Labor Standards Act. (English) https://library.scourt.go.kr/SCLIB_data/decision/2011Da44276.htm (Korean) https://glaw.scourt.go.kr/wsjo/panre/sjo100.do?contId=2129438

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