Although human trafficking has gained unprecedented national and international attention
and condemnation over the past decade, the legal instruments developed to combat this …

“In the past ten to twenty years the global political economy picture has dramatically
changed with the emergence of the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and, notably, China …

Is there a distinctive Chinese model for law and economic development? In The Beijing
Consensus scholars turn their collective attention to answer this basic but seemingly under …

We use leximetric data coding techniques and panel data econometrics to test for the
economic effects of laws governing worker representation and industrial action in the large …

Over the course of the twentieth century, labor unions emerged across the globe in reaction
to the widespread growth of industrial wage labor. The relative strength of unions saw a …

In the 1990s, many governments undertaking privatization and regulatory reforms created
independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) for the privatized sectors. Brazil is no exception …

The late geographer Milton Santos interpreted the changing Brazilian landscape as a
dynamic social product of work, both past and present. What happened at each specific site …

The place of labor regulation in contemporary development discourse revolves around the
validity of the neoclassical assertion that any interference with market wage-setting …

Labour law has traditionally aimed to protect the employee under a hierarchy built on
constitutional provisions, statutory law, collective agreements at various levels, and the …

On June 7, 2012, Chinese labor activist Li Wangyang was found dead, more than twenty
years after his imprisonment following the Tiananmen protests in 1989, and shortly after …