Comparative labour law and industrial relations in industrialized market economies, 8th ed.

Abstract:

Globalisation and the growth of multinational enterprises, coupled with the increasing ambitions of international and regional organisations for harmonisation of labour rules, has been accompanied by an urgent need for lawyers and industrial relations practitioners to familiarise themselves with the potential impact of comparativism. This work seeks to describe the striking features and trends in labour law and industrial relations in the contemporary world, which for the terms of this study has been restricted mainly to the industrialised market economies.

The book is organised in four parts. Part one provides an introduction to the methodology and documentation, including use of the Internet. Part two looks at the ‘actors’, featuring chapters on the International Employers’ Organisations, the International Trade Union Movement and Human Resource Management. The third part covers the ‘sources of regulation’ and includes chapters on International Labour Law, The European Union and Employment Law, Multinational Enterprises and Codes of Conduct, and Conflicts of Laws in Employment Contracts and Industrial Relations. The final part and by far the largest deals with international developments and comparative studies, featuring amongst the thirteen chapters such topics as Freedom of Association, Working Conditions and Globalisation, Security of Employment and Employability, Collective Bargaining and the Settlement of Disputes over Rights and Interests.

The work will interest scholars and students, employment lawyers and researchers engaged in labour law and industrial relations.

Roger Blanpain is Professor of Law at the Universities of Leuven and Limburg, Belgium and the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands.