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International labor standards, soft regulation, and national government roles created by Sarosh Kuruvilla and Anil Verma

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal of industrial relations ; Volume 48, number 1London: Sage, 2006Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISSN:
  • 00221856
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD8391 JOU
Online resources: Abstract: In this article, we briefly describe the different approaches to the regulation of international labor standards, and then argue for a new role for national governments based on soft rather than hard regulation approaches. We argue that this new role shows potential for significantly enhancing progress in international labor standards, since it enables governments to articulate a position without having to deal with the enforcement issues that hard regulation mandates. We justify this new role for governments based on the increasing use of soft regulation in the international arena. Of course, this approach is not without its own problems, but given that existing approaches have all provided imperfect solutions to the problem of improving labor standards globally, re-visiting the role of national governments is in our view, highly important.
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Journal Article Journal Article Main Library - Special Collections HD8391 JOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol. 48, no.1 (pages 41-58) SP16980 Not for loan For in house use only

In this article, we briefly describe the different approaches to the regulation of international labor standards, and then argue for a new role for national governments based on soft rather than hard regulation approaches. We argue that this new role shows potential for significantly enhancing progress in international labor standards, since it enables governments to articulate a position without having to deal with the enforcement issues that hard regulation mandates. We justify this new role for governments based on the increasing use of soft regulation in the international arena. Of course, this approach is not without its own problems, but given that existing approaches have all provided imperfect solutions to the problem of improving labor standards globally, re-visiting the role of national governments is in our view, highly important.

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