Overview
- Critically appraises the role of multinational companies and other non-state actors
- Offers new viewpoints on corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies and their efficiency
- Provides an in-depth analysis of the legal framework, institutions and key actors involved
- Includes a detailed analysis of the impact of social norms and ‘cultural logic’ on the role of labour standards
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 49)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Child Labour Issue
- Collective Bargaining System
- Equality and Social Inclusion in the Workplace
- Fundamental Labour Rights
- Fundamental Labour Rights in China
- History of the Evolving Labour Law in China
- Implementation of the Regulatory Framework
- Implementing Labour Laws in Republican Shanghai
- International Labour Organization
- Legal Institutions and the Implementation of Labour
- Legislation on Sexual Harassment at Work and Its Implementation
- Modern Chinese Labour Law
- Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in China
- Political and Moral Economies
About this book
This volume gathers together chapters that address the theme of implementing fundamental labour rights in China. It explores the legal framework as well as key institutions and other actors along with the socio-economic context involved in interpretation, implementation, enforcement and overall promotion of fundamental labour rights in China. As a collection of chapters, it assembles comparative and mutually complementary perspectives and insights by distinguished scholars from China, Europe and the United States. With its broad perspective on implementation, the book discusses the most topical challenges to realizing fundamental labour rights in China.
China was among the founding members of the ILO. With the regulatory approach of the ILO, fundamental labour rights have gained a new foothold as a key pillar in managing the social dimension of globalization. The development of fundamental labour rights protection in China can be viewed as part of a larger development within China’s domestic economic and social transition as well as its integration into the global economic system. While China has ratified four of the eight ILO core conventions, the challenge of effective implementation and enforcement in the domestic context remains. With its in-depth research on fundamental labour rights in the particular cultural context of the Chinese experience, this book studies Chinese labour law from multiple perspectives, at the same time examining the wider role of international labour standards in developing Chinese law and society.
This volume is a remarkable enlargement of existing scholarship on international labour standards, on the one hand, and fundamental labour rights in China on the other. These chapters thoroughly analyse the legal and institutional framework for implementing labour law in China. Among the topics covered are fundamental labour rights including freedom from forced labour, prohibition of use of child labour andnon-discrimination. In addition, this volume benefits from socio-historical observations on the cultural logics that inform implementation of fundamental labour rights in China in which the history and current development of Chinese labour law are equally reflected with substantive depth.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamental Labour Rights in China - Legal Implementation and Cultural Logic
Editors: Ulla Liukkunen, Yifeng Chen
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23156-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23155-6Published: 13 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79453-2Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23156-3Published: 12 December 2015
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 269
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Labour Law/Social Law, Human Rights