TY - BOOK AU - Marx Axel TI - Global Governance of Labour Rights: Assessing the Effectiveness of Transnational Public and Private Policy Initiatives SN - 9781784711450 U1 - 344.01 PY - 2015/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Edward Elgar Publishing KW - Labor laws and legislation, International KW - Labor rights - International cooperation N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -