Human rights due diligence (HRDD) has emerged as a dominant frame through which to conceptualise and operationalise responsible business conduct with respect to workers' rights in global supply chains. Legislation mandating HRDD is now found in several European countries and across various national regulatory agendas. Many scholars, practitioners, and activists are actively calling for further legalisation, believing that this will broaden respect for human rights. Yet to date, there has been little sustained scholarly analysis from a labour rights perspective. Observing that HRDD, as originally articulated in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, is open to multiple interpretations, this book examines global debates on the role and status of the concept. It also considers the implications of HRDD's ascension for transnational labour law as a distinct field of law, scholarship, and activism. Combining insights from transnational governance and business regulation with empirical analysis, this book argues that HRDD is not being institutionalised at either the global or national level in a way that renders it a transformative or even robust mechanism of transnational labour law. It also draws attention to the important, but largely overlooked, ways in which the rise of HRDD is leading to subtle shifts in the configuration of actors and institutions in labour governance.
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This book critically examines human rights due diligence as a tool of transnational labour law. It explores how the concept of HRDD has been received and institutionalised, and what the concept's ascension means for the protection and promotion of workers' rights in global supply chains.
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Table of Legislation List of Abbreviations 1: Introduction: The Rise of a New Concept in Transnational Labour Governance 2: Situating HRDD in Transnational Labour Governance 3: Unpacking HRDD: Risk Management, Business Regulation, Transnational Norm 4: HRDD and Divergent Logics in Transnational Labour Governance 5: HRDD at the OECD and the ILO 6: Paths Diverge: The Interpolation of HRDD in National and Regional Law 7: What Does HRDD Mean for Transnational Labour Governance? 8: Towards a More Promising Trajectory for Human Rights Due Diligence as Transnational Labour Law 9: Conclusion: A Pyrrhic Victory? Human Rights Due Diligence and Transnational Labour Law Bibliography Index
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Ingrid Landau is a senior lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University, and a member of the Labour, Equality and Human Rights (LEAH) Research Group. She is a socio-legal scholar whose research spans labour law, business and human rights, regulatory studies, and transnational governance. She has published widely in Australian and international journals and has undertaken research for the Australian Fair Work Commission, trade union, and civil society organisations, and the International Labour Organisation. She holds a PhD from Melbourne Law School, and BA degrees in Asian Studies (Vietnamese) and Law (Hons) from the Australian National University.
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Offers the first sustained analysis of human rights due diligence's implications for the protection and promotion of workers' rights in the global economy Explores how the rise of HRDD is leading to subtle shifts in the configuration of actors and institutions in transnational labour governance Discusses how HRDD could be institutionalised in ways that open up, rather than foreclose, opportunities to challenge practices that lead to labour rights violations Investigates a stage in the transnational regulatory process that tends to be overlooked in labour scholarship Combines socio-legal and empirical methods with insights from sociology, international law, politics, and regulatory governance
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ISBN
9780198876069
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
514 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
240

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Ingrid Landau is a senior lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University, and a member of the Labour, Equality and Human Rights (LEAH) Research Group. She is a socio-legal scholar whose research spans labour law, business and human rights, regulatory studies, and transnational governance. She has published widely in Australian and international journals and has undertaken research for the Australian Fair Work Commission, trade union, and civil society organisations, and the International Labour Organisation. She holds a PhD from Melbourne Law School, and BA degrees in Asian Studies (Vietnamese) and Law (Hons) from the Australian National University.