Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Work Regulation

Focusing on paid work that blurs traditionallegal boundaries and the challenge this poses to traditional forms of labourregulation, this collection of original case studies illustrates the wide rangeof different forms of regulation designed to provide decent work.

Focusing on paid work that blurs traditional legal boundaries and the challenge this poses to traditional forms of labour regulation, this collection of original case studies illustrates the wide range of different forms of regulation designed to provide decent work. The original case studies cover a diversity of workers from across developed and developing countries, the formal and informal economies and public and private work spaces. Each deals with the failings of traditional labour law, and several explore the capacity of different forms of regulatory techniques, such as commercial law, corporate codes of conduct, or supply chain regulation, to protect workers.

1. Blurring Legal Boundaries: Regulating for Decent Work Judy FudgePART I: INFORMALITY AT WORK 2. Flexibility and Informalisation of Employment Relationships Kamala Sankaran3. Transform or Perish: Changing Conceptions of Work in Recycling Poornima Chikarmane and Lakshmi Narayanan4. Informal Sectors and New Industries: The Complexities of Regulating Occupational Health and Safety inDeveloping Countries Richard JohnstonePART II: BETWEEN THE BORDERS OF EMPLOYMENT AND COMMERCIAL LAW 5. Legal Responsibility for Labour Conditions Down the Production Chain Alan Hyde6. A Blurred Boundary between Entrepreneurship and Servitude: Regulating Business Format Franchising in Australia Joellen Riley7. Developing Legislative Protection for Owner Drivers in Australia: The Long Road to Regulatory Best Practice Brendan Johnson8. Organising Independent Contractors: The Impact of Competition Law Shae McCrystal9. Regulation of Dependent Self-employed Workers in Spain: A Regulatory Framework for Informal Work? Juan-Pablo Landa Zapirain10. Freelancers: An Intermediate Group in Labour Law? Guy DavidovPART III: PAID CARE WORKERSTHE SIGNIFICANCE OF INSTITUTIONS FOR DECENT WORK 11. The Wages of Care-workers: From Structure to Agency Guy Mundlak12. Sector-based Collective Bargaining Regimes and Gender Segregation: A Case Study of Self-employed HomeChildcare Workers in Quebec Stephanie Bernstein13. From 'Domestic Servant' to 'Domestic Worker' Einat Albin14. Employment Agencies and Domestic Work in Ghana Dzodzi TsikataPART IV: REGULATING FOR DECENT WORK 15. Corporate Codes of Conduct in the Garment Sector in Bangalore Roopa Madhav16. How Britain's Low-paid Non-unionised Employees Deal with Workplace Problems Anna Pollert17. Learning from Case Law Accounts of Marginalised Working Lizzie Barmes