Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations: International and Domestic Perspectives (Labor and Employment Relations Association (Lera))

The concept of human rights at work has advanced significantly in the last decade. The authors of the essays in Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations focus in various ways on how the promotion and protection of human rights at workplaces here and around the world posit a new set of values and approaches that challenge every orthodoxy in the employment relations field, every practice and rule based in that orthodoxy, and even the underlying premises and intellectual foundations of contemporary labor and employment systems. The authors constitute a diverse and accomplished group of human rights activists, practitioners, and scholars. Implementing the theme of the volume, they address a wide range of important subjects: worker health and safety, child labor, worker freedom of association, migrant and forced labor, the human rights obligations of employers, workplace discrimination, and workers with disabilities. The authors also discuss the implications of their findings for labor and employment research and, where relevant, make pragmatic proposals for change.Contributors
Susanne M. Bruyère, Cornell University
Lance Compa, Cornell University
James A. Gross, Cornell University
Jeffrey Hilgert, Cornell University
Barbara Murray, International Labour Organization
Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol
Maria L. Ontiveros, University of San Francisco Law School
Edward E. Potter, Director of Global Workplace Rights, Coca-Cola Company; U.S. Employer Delegate, International Labour Organization Conference
Marika McCauley Sine, Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Coca-Cola Company
Rebecca Smith, National Employment Law Project
Burns H. Weston, University of Iowa