Protecting the Future of Work

New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards

Barry Colfer, Barry Colfer

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781800712508
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Labour & Employment Law
• Index: Law

Institutions such as trade unions that were once relied upon to protect workers' wages, conditions and job security are eroding. In response, new forms of worker protections are emerging.

Protecting the Future of Work examines new forms of regulation that have emerged in response to increasing social concern about poor labour practices, growing inequality, and detrimental working conditions. It looks at how trade unions, community organisations and other actors have mobilised to raise public awareness and pressure businesses and governments to improve working conditions.

Featuring a balance of texts on the changing nature of and the history of trade union change and transformation, the series Trade Unionism gives space for in-depth, detailed analysis and captures key themes on the nature of internationalism and trade unionism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Introduction: New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards
• Chapter 1. Neoliberalism or Augmented Pluralism? Defending the Web of Rules in New Zealand, Australia and Ireland
• Chapter 2. The European Social Model and the Patchwork of Rules
• Chapter 3. Regulatory Experimentation and Gender Inequality
• Chapter 4. The Limits of HRM in a New Era of Work: Bezonomics and the Amazon Effect
• Chapter 5. Beyond Mobilisation at Mcdonald’s: Towards Networked Organising
• Chapter 6. The Rising Gig Economy in China: Implications for the Protection of Migrant Workers
• Chapter 7. Collaborative Institutional Experimentation to Address the Exploitation and Marginalisation of Migrant Workers
• Chapter 8. Global Supply Chains and Labour Standards: From a Patchwork of Rules to a Web of Rules?
• Conclusion: Towards a New Web of Rules
• Index