2006
DOI: 10.1177/0022185606059313
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International Labor Standards, Soft Regulation, and National Government Roles

Abstract: Abstract[Excerpt] In this article, we briefly describe the different approaches to the regulation of international labor standards, and then argue for a new role for national governments based on soft rather than hard regulation approaches. We argue that this new role shows potential for significantly enhancing progress in international labor standards, since it enables governments to articulate a position without having to deal with the enforcement issues that hard regulation mandates. We justify this new rol… Show more

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“…In practice, this means that when transnational corporations (TNCs) offshore operations, mainly to Asian countries, they are involving themselves in national industrial relations systems characterised by only limited enforcement of workers' rights. This lack of enforcement of national labour laws and limited protection of workers' rights has led workers' rights representatives (both labour unions and non-governmental organisations) to attempt to establish transnational industrial relations systems to complement existing national systems (Esbenshade, 2001;Riisgaard, 2005;Anner et al, 2006;Kuruvilla and Verma, 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In practice, this means that when transnational corporations (TNCs) offshore operations, mainly to Asian countries, they are involving themselves in national industrial relations systems characterised by only limited enforcement of workers' rights. This lack of enforcement of national labour laws and limited protection of workers' rights has led workers' rights representatives (both labour unions and non-governmental organisations) to attempt to establish transnational industrial relations systems to complement existing national systems (Esbenshade, 2001;Riisgaard, 2005;Anner et al, 2006;Kuruvilla and Verma, 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this way, the issue of transnational governance of workers' rights came to coincide with the increasingly powerful CSR trend towards voluntary 'soft law' regulation (cf. Esbenshade, 2001;O' Rourke, 2003;Bartley, 2005;Kuruvilla and Verma, 2006). This linkage between the shift to voluntary governance of workers' rights on an individual corporate level and the CSR trend is frequently noted in the industrial relations literature (e.g., Miller, 2004;Riisgaard, 2005;Shanahan and Khagram, 2006;Waddington, 2006).…”
Section: Trend Iv: From Legal To Voluntary Governancementioning
confidence: 79%
“…Business interests in developed countries see the possibility of greater cost efficiencies to be gained by relocating capital and operations to the developing world where trade union activities are tightly controlled and labour standards are kept low as a matter of state policy. And political interests in the developing world in turn see the possibility of underwriting rapid economic growth through foreign investment attracted by cheap and compliant labour (Mauzy 1997, Kuruvilla andVerma 2006). So long as these circumstances remain, the assumed automatism of the neo-functionalist model will be suspended.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%