1. Protecting Labour Rights in a Globalizing World: An Introduction
Axel Marx, Jan Wouters, Laura Beke and Glenn Rayp

2. The Protection of International Labour Rights. A Longitudinal Analysis of the Protection of the Rights of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining over 30 years in 73 countries
Axel Marx, Jadir Soares and Wouter Van Acker

3. The EU’s Social Dimension and its External Trade Relations
Samantha Velluti

4. Divided We Stand: The European Parliament’s Position on Social Trade in the Post-Lisbon Era
Lore Van den Putte

5. Asian and US Perspectives on Labor Rights under International Trade Agreements Compared
Ronald C. Brown

6. EU Economic Governance and Labour Rights: Diversity and Coherence in the EU, the Council of Europe and ILO Instruments
Frank Hendrickx and Pieter Pecinovsky

7. Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining Power in Global Labor Governance
Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten and Melanie Kryst

8. The Rapprochement of ILO Standards and CSR Mechanisms: Towards a Positive Understanding of the ‘Privatization’ of International Labour Standards
Ruben Zandvliet and Paul van der Heijden

9. Between the Dragon’s Gift and its Claws: China in Africa and the (Un)Civil Fostering of ILO’s Decent Work Agenda
Abdul-Gafar ‘Tobi’ Oshodi

10. On the Transformative Capacity of Private Fair Labour Arrangements
Ceren Pekdemir, Pieter Glasbergen and Ron Cörvers

11. Compliance Opportunities and the Effectiveness of Private Voluntary Standard Setting – Lessons from the Global Banana Industry
Dennis Klink

12. The ‘Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh’ in Response to the Rana Plaza Disaster
Juliane Reinecke and Jimmy Donaghey

13. The International Labour Organization, Multinational Enterprises, and Shifting Conceptions of Responsibility in the Global Economy
Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner and Faina Milman-Sivan

14. Conclusion: Which Way to Enforcement?
Glenn Rayp, Axel Marx and Jan Wouters

This insightful book incorporates perspectives from several disciplines to provide a unique systematic analysis of emerging public and private initiatives in global labour rights governance. The expert contributors explore the complexities of labour rights governance in a global economy characterized by transnational supply chains. They assess how transnational, intergovernmental and private initiatives aim to address the challenges of global labour rights protection before discussing the effectiveness of these initiatives and presenting new empirical findings. The book concludes with a detailed reflection on how to strengthen the global regime of labour rights governance.