Globalisation and Labour Rights

Christine Kaufmann is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute of International and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich.

• Introduction: Setting Out the Problems1. The Legal Framework for Core Labour Rights2. International Economic Organisations and Core Labour Rights: Conflicting Interests3. Cross-border Economic Activities: Multinational Enterprises and the Linkage Debate4. Reconciling Conflicting Interests: The Roles of Nation States and the International Community5. Conclusions

This book by Christine Kaufmann is timely as it deals with 'core labour rights' and the effects of globalisation...Quite uncommon for lawyers, Kaufmann provides the economic rationale underlying national economic and social policies. She also provides a comprehensive outlook on the Swiss system relating to labour rights, which should be extremely helpful for students of comparative law...Her examination of social labelling programmes in the context of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and the Government Procurement Agreement is extremely interesting...The book is useful to students and scholars of international law. It is well-structured and one can follow the line of thought in an adequate manner... It would be fair to say that this book offers a solid and detailed inquiry into the conflicts between core labour rights and international economic law. Rekha Oleschak Pillai The Swiss Review of International Economic Relations March 2008 ...important and scholarly... Bob Hepple Industrial Law Journal Vol. 36, No. 4, December 2007 Globalisation and Labour Rights can be unreservedly recommended to lawyers and economists alike, not least because of its comprehensive coverage..for economists and lawyers it provides a broad overview and shows that international commercial law can and must take account of labour law. Johanna Felkl European Journal of Labour Law Vol. 3 2008 Kaufmann's book is a well-documented contribution, which presents an academically attractive thesis...Academic contributions such as Kaufmann's are of most interest in that they define strategies to reconcile international trade law with social values. Julien Burda Global Law Books 23rd October 2008