Contents
List of contributors... vii
Preface... x
Part I Conceptualizing labour and human rights law
1 Perspectives on labour and human rights... 2
Part II Sources in National Law
Section A Civil law and constitutional sources
2 Fundamental rights and German labor law... 17
3 (The right to) work as foundational value: Italy and the very notion of a constitutional promise... 34
4 Fundamental labour rights in Brazil: challenges and developments... 50
5 Business, labor law and human rights in Japan... 69
6 Fundamental rights and Swedish labour law... 84
Section B Common law
7 Worker rights as human rights: regenerative reconception or rhetorical refuge?
8 Business and labour, and human rights in New Zealand... 130
9 The architecture of human rights at work in Israeli law... 149
10 Human rights in the evolution of South African labour law... 170
Section C Transition Economies
11 Labor disputes in China from a fundamental labor rights perspective... 191
12 Trying to balance economic and labour rights: the case of Russia ... 207
Part III Fundamental rights
Section A Concepts
13 Freedom of association: its emergence and the case for prevention of its decline... 231
14 Freedom from child labour: a fundamental right ... 253
15Workplace gender equality as a human right: the ILO approach... 274
Section B Supranational influences
16 How the ILO embraced human rights... 295
17 The European convention on human rights as a fountain of labour rights... 314
18 Labor human rights and the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of human rights...334
Section C Scope and Coverage
19 Fundamental labour rights, platform work and human rights protection of non-standard workers... 359
20 Decent work challenges for atypical workers in Korea... 380
Part IV Business and human rights
21 From workers' rights to human rights at work... 402
22 Multinational enterprises and labour rights: concepts and implementation... 421
23 The EU's CSR policy in a global and national context... 439
24 State extraterritorial regulation and decent work in the Asia Pacific... 466
Index... 493

Inquisitive and diverse, this innovative Research Handbook explores the ways in which human rights apply to people at work, through national constitutional provisions, judicial decisions and the application of rights expressed in supranational instruments. Key topics include evaluation of the role of the ILO in developing and promoting internationally recognized labour rights, and the examination of the meaning of the obligation of business to respect human rights, considering the evolution from international soft law to incorporation in codes of conduct and the emerging requirement of due diligence.