VOLUME 35
ISSUE 1
Toward Joint Liability in Global Supply Chains: Addressing the Root Causes of Labor Violations in International Subcontracting Networks
Mark Anner, Jennifer Bair, and Jeremy Blasi
Evaluating South Korean Legal Channels for Individual Employment Disputes Through Budd and Colvin’s Framework
Richard Croucher, Kyoung Eun Joung, and Lilian Miles
Three Misunderstandings About Consumocratic Labor Law
Martin Dumas
The Law of Workplace Harassment of the United States, France, and the European Union: Comparative Analysis After the Adoption of France’s New Sexual Harassment Law
Loïc Lerouge and L. Camille Hébert
BOOK REVIEWS
Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy, Virginia Doellgast
reviewed by Sabine Blaschke
The Promise and Limits of Private Power: Promoting Labor Standards in the Global Economy, Richard M. Locke
reviewed by Lance Compa
Human Rights and Labor Solidarity: Trade Unions in the Global Economy, Susan L. Kang
reviewed by Jeffrey Hilgert
Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing, Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate & Edmund Heery
reviewed by Peter Ikeler
Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India, Rina Agarwala
reviewed by Jenny Jungehülsing
The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations Across the Americas, Kathleen C. Schwartzman
reviewed by Bryant Simon
Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment, edited by Katherine V.W. Stone and Harry Arthurs
reviewed by Leah F. Vosko
ISSUE 2
Nonhiring and Dismissal of Senior Workers: Is It All About the Money?
Pnina Alon-Shenker
Lay Judges and Labor Courts: A Question of Legitimacy
Pete Burgess, Susan Corby, and Paul L. Latreille
This Article draws on data for labor courts in five European countries, considering specifically national differences in the selection, training, and deployment of lay judges. In so doing the Article examines the scope for developing a theoretical framework for assessing the role of lay judges in employment adjudication from the standpoint of the legitimacy that lay judges contribute to systems of labor jurisdiction. Legitimacy is a concept with many facets, and it raises particular problems when considered cross-culturally. This Article explores in what ways lay judges can be said to add legitimacy, considers whether and to what extent cross-country comparisons can be made in this area, and identifies areas for further research.
Models of Protection of the Right of Irregular Immigrants to Back Pay: The Impact of the Interconnection Between Immigration Law and Labor Law
Elaine Dewhurst
The Laws of "Illegal" Work and Dilemmas in Interest Representation on Segmented Labor Markets: À Propos Irregular Migrants in Sweden
Niklas Selberg
BOOK REVIEW
NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism, Tamara Kay
reviewed by Tequila J. Brooks
ISSUE 3
Introduction to the Special Collection on The European Financial Crisis and National Labor and Employment Law Reforms
Social Reforms to Cope with the Financial Crisis in France
Yannick Pagnerre
European Economic Governance and the Labor Laws of the E.U. Member States
Achim Seifert
Flexibility Without Security and Deconstruction of Collective Bargaining: The New Paradigm of Labor Law in Greece
Matina Yannakourou and Chronis Tsimpoukis
Greece’s accession to the financial support mechanism of the IMF, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission in May 2010 led to severe austerity measures radically affecting the whole range of labor legislation. An intense legislative activity was manifest between 2010 and 2013, aiming at a labor cost reduction and a labor rights’ restriction. The purpose of this Article is to offer a critical overview of the most crucial reforms that have taken place in the Greek labor legislation after the Memoranda and to demonstrate how they affected the foundations, the sources, the principles and the functions of the Greek labor law. The Article attempts to demonstrate that the Greek example reveals the paradigm shift in labor law that gradually expands across the Europe, consisting into the replacement of the after war humanitarian labor law model with a neoliberal economic model of market supremacy over labor rights. The Article argues that this paradigm shift is in line with the new economic governance structure at European level laying on the neoliberal dogma of deregulation, liberalization, and removal of collective regulation constraints over employment relationship.
The Effect of the Global Crisis on the Labor Market: Report on Italy
Marco Biasi
Regressive Labor Legislation–The Magic Potion for All Crises: The Case of Portugal
António Monteiro Fernandes
Strengthening the Power of Dismissal in Recent Labor Reforms in Spain
José Luis Gil y Gil
Shifting Responsibility: How the Burden of the European Financial Crisis Shifted Away from the Financial Sector and Onto Labor
Shelley Marshall
In light of the labor crisis that has unfolded in Europe with record level unemployment, growing precariousness of employment and increasing inequality, it would seem logical that measures be undertaken at national and international levels to ease the consequences of the crisis for workers. Governments have responded to such conditions the past by creating major social pacts with labor to bolster consumption and faith in the economic system. The U.S. New Deal came out of such a crisis. Yet instead of softening the burden of the crisis for labor, it has been amplified by most national labor law reform processes. This Article examines contrasting views about the causes of the 2007 U.S. financial crisis, and the 2009/10 European sovereign debt crisis. It presents data on the effects of the crisis on labor, showing that inequality has increased, although the wealth of the top quintile was reduced by financial market losses. Unemployment and informal work have also increased dramatically. It then briefly assesses alternatives to the labor law reforms that have been rolled out across Europe, focusing on financial re-regulation. It concludes by examining why these tools are not being employed by nation-states following the crisis, and why other measures have been preferred.
BOOK REVIEWS
North American Integration: An Institutional Void in Migration, Security and Development, edited by Gaspare M. Genna and David A. Mayer-Foulkes
reviewed by Tequila J. Brooks
Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing, by Jamie K. McCallum
reviewed by Susan Kang
The Role of International Social Security Standards: An in-Depth Study Through the Case of Greece, by Maria Korda
reviewed by Dimitrios Kremalis
Phone Clone: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy, by Kiran Mirchandani
reviewed by Smitha Radhakrishnan
Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work, by Jeffrey Hilgert
reviewed by Emily A. Spieler