The article discusses the occupational health and safety concerns for workers in the clothing and textile industries. The article details a range of health concerns including exposure to cotton dust, …
Scholarly Article
Migration Matters: Thailand – the Land of Migrants and Refugees
The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s Migration Matters web series delved into migration patterns in Asian countries. This article talks about Thailand’s Migration in these different areas: Economic Opportunities for …
Occupational Heat Stress Impacts on Health and Productivity in a Steel Industry in Southern India
The study investigates the heat-related illnesses that laborers are prone to while working in steel industries where the thermal conditions are poor. The findings are based on a cross-sectional study …
India: Occupational health status of construction workers: A review
This article summarizes the occupational health risks faced by construction workers globally. The article presents a comprehensive list of risk factors as documented from 1972 to 2016 and discusses the …
A Summary Note: A Review of the Implementation of the Labour Law of Mongolia
A review of the implementation of the Labour Law of Mongolia (1999) undertaken by labor law experts professor Urantsetseg Baldan and professor Bolormaa Soloon of National University of Mongolia. It …
‘Techtopus’: A Critical Analysis of the Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Scandal
This article (in 5 Manchester Rev. L. Crime & Ethics 160 (2016)) examines the Silicon-Valley Wage-fixing scandal as a white-collar crime and an intersection between antitrust law and labor law. …
Reinforcing the State: Transnational and State Labor Regulation in Indonesia
This article in (69 ILR Review 5) examines Better Work, an Indonesia-based initiative to improve labor conditions for garment industry workers, to understand how transnational regulations reinforce domestic regulatory efforts. …
Ethics in occupational health and safety: case studies from Gujarat
This article discusses the absence of strong labor laws and policies, poor enforcement regulations, as well as a gap in research on occupational health in India. The article summarizes the …
The Political Economy of Russian Migration Politics
This paper contains a general overview of significant amendments to migration legislation and current developments in the area of migrant workers. In particular, the authors describe in general patent system …
UK: “False Self-Employment, Autonomy and Regulating for Decent Work: Improving Working Conditions in the UK Stripping Industry”
Research Article Abstract Posted in Front of Paywall: “A large‐scale study of working conditions in UK‐based strip dancing clubs reveals that dancers are against de facto self‐employment as it is …
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