Global Governance of Labour Rights

Edited by Axel Marx, Deputy Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director, Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Glenn Rayp, Professor in International Economics, Department of Economics, University of Ghent and Laura Beke, Doctoral Researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium

• Contents:1. Protecting Labour Rights in a Globalizing World: An IntroductionAxel Marx, Jan Wouters, Laura Beke and Glenn Rayp2. 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 countriesAxel Marx, Jadir Soares and Wouter Van Acker 3. The EU’s Social Dimension and its External Trade RelationsSamantha 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 ComparedRonald C. Brown6. EU Economic Governance and Labour Rights: Diversity and Coherence in the EU, the Council of Europe and ILO InstrumentsFrank Hendrickx and Pieter Pecinovsky7. Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining Power in Global Labor GovernanceSigrid 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 Heijden9. Between the Dragon’s Gift and its Claws: China in Africa and the (Un)Civil Fostering of ILO’s Decent Work AgendaAbdul-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 Klink12. The ‘Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh’ in Response to the Rana Plaza DisasterJuliane Reinecke and Jimmy Donaghey13. The International Labour Organization, Multinational Enterprises, and Shifting Conceptions of Responsibility in the Global EconomyYossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner and Faina Milman-Sivan14. Conclusion: Which Way to Enforcement?Glenn Rayp, Axel Marx and Jan WoutersIndex

‘Global Governance of Labour Rights provides an outstanding collection of essays examining how international trade relations, trade agreements and non-state actors influence labour rights governance. This well-crafted, coherent, and thoughtful volume will make important contributions to the ongoing debates on the regulation and enforcement of labour rights.’