The role of labour standards in development
Subtitle: from theory to sustainable practice?
By: edited by Tonia Novitz and David Mangan
Contributors: British Academy
Series: British Academy original paperbacks; British Academy original paperbacks
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780197264911
Subjects: International Labor laws and legislation; Law and economic development; Sustainable development
Other titles: Role of labor standards in development
Description: "This edited collection examines the multi-faceted ways in which labour standards can play a role in the achievement of development. A variety of critical perspectives are presented here, with contributions from a number of different disciplines, including law, politics, and economics. The book begins by considering potential theoretical connections between work and development, acknowledging controversy over how the latter should be approached, interpreted and rendered 'sustainable'. The remainder of the collection is devoted to an analysis of the part that protection of labour standards can play in developmental terms, with reference to concrete issues: anti-discrimination, child labour, trade relations, and social dialogue. The book concludes with a final chapter, reflecting on how theory has been and could be put into practice. The theme that transcends all the contributions to this collection is that of human agency. The authors are not merely interested in the realisation of an individual person's 'functioning' in society (which development will assist), but also with the ways that people can be engaged in the very process of defining what development aims should and can be. They do not wish to see economic, social and environmental development objectives as being determined by technical experts and implemented according to their prescriptions. Rather, they consider development in procedural as well as substantive terms, and in participatory as well as material terms."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Collection of essays based upon proceedings of a conference held at the British Academy Rooms in London in May 2009.

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.