Despite the growing global consensus regarding the need to ensure minimal labour standards, such as adequate safety and health conditions, freedom of association, and the prohibition of child labour, millions of workers across the world continue to work in horrific conditions. Who should be held responsible, both morally and legally, for protecting workers' rights? What moral and legal obligations should individuals and institutions bear towards foreign workers in their countries? Is there any democratic way to generate, regulate, and enforce labour standards in a global labour market? This book addresses these questions by taking a fresh look at the normative assumptions underlying existing and proposed international labour regulations. By focusing on international labour as a particular sphere of justice, it seeks to advance both the contemporary philosophical debate on global justice and the legal scholarship on international labour.

Presents innovative perspectives on the moral and legal obligations of individuals and institutions toward workers in the global era.

About the Author
Yossi Dahan is an associate professor of law at the College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel, where he is also the Director of the human rights program. Hanna Lerner is a senior lecturer in political science at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies (Cambridge, 2011). Faina Milman-Sivan is a senior lecturer at the Law Faculty at the University of Haifa, Israel.


Book Information
ISBN 9781107458154
Author Yossi Dahan
Format Paperback
Page Count 312
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 470g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 17mm