Mongolia: Advancing women’s role in mining sector

This report by the World Bank examines women’s employment in the mining sector, one of the core sectors of Mongolia. Currently, women’s employment in mining is largely in support services …

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Four Case Studies on Corporate Social Responsibility: Do Conflicts Affect a Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility Policy?

The article discusses different CSR issues emerging with four multinationals while giving a clearer definition of CSR. European Commission defines CSR as ‘the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on …

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Thailand at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in Leveraging Migration for Development

This article gives an introduction about the issue brief which examines the country’s migration challenges ahead and the two basic approaches to regularizing labor migration: Memoranda of Understanding with migrant-sending …

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Enforcement of International Framework Agreements under U.S. Law

Goldman proposes methods to convert the “soft law” of Global Framework Agreements into enforceable “hard law.” He describes enforcement under the U.S. Labor Management Relations Act, contract theories, consumer protection …

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UK; EU: “Identifying ‘Exploitative Compromises’: The Role of Labour Law in Resolving Disputes Between Workers”

Both at the policy level and at the workplace level, the interests of labor are not always a unified set of interests versus employers with capital in the traditional “labour …

Discrimination in the field of labor and employment in Russia

This article explains that young people and people over 45 years old are discriminated against in the labor market. The article also explains that although it is prohibited in Russia, …

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Dockers and Seafarers: What the Politics of Spatial Embeddedness and Geographical Scale Have Meant for Union Organizing in the European Maritime Trades

This article (in 37 Lab. Stud. J. 203 (2012)) considers the strategic challenges of labor organizing within maritime trades, with a conceptual focus on labor geography. It explores how mobility and …

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Cross-Border Trade Union Action in a Canadian Multinational Corporation

This article (in  27 Int’l J. Comp. Lab. L. & Indus. Rel. 271 (2011)) examines the import of international framework agreements (IFAs) and European framework agreements (EFAs) as instruments of …

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El estado de los derechos de los trabajadores en Nigeria: un examen de los sectores de banca, petróleo y gas y telecomunicaciones

Este estudio examina los derechos de los trabajadores en Nigeria. El estudio se centra en los trabajadores de tres sectores de la economía: banca, petróleo y gas y telecomunicaciones. A través de datos empíricos, el ...

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Between Fragmentation and Globalization: U.S. Public Sector Unions and International Labor Cooperation

This article (in 35 Lab. Stud. J. 364 (2010)) explores the import of public-sector unions in cultivating transnational labor campaigns, as well as the challenges that development has entailed. Langevin …

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