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Labour Rights In A Globalised World: What Future? Higher Standards Or "Race To The Bottom"?, Francesco Montanaro, Luigi Testa
Labour Rights In A Globalised World: What Future? Higher Standards Or "Race To The Bottom"?, Francesco Montanaro, Luigi Testa
Bocconi Legal Papers
This paper tries to assess the impact of economic globalization on national labour law. The liberalization of movement of capitals, goods and services created a competition between developed and developing countries. Developed countries in order to not lose this new challenge started to modify their labour legislation, curtailing or erasing consolidated rights in the name of flexibility. Deregulation became the leit motiv of the last thirty years. In this scenario both the soft law and the conventions promoted and adopted by International Labour Organizations (ILO) seem to be ineffective, not enforceable. Nevertheless, a global governance and regulation of labour law …
Secondary Boycotts And Ally Doctrine In The U.S. Law Of Strikes, Jacopo Busnach Ravenna
Secondary Boycotts And Ally Doctrine In The U.S. Law Of Strikes, Jacopo Busnach Ravenna
Bocconi Legal Papers
The paper aims to schematically illustrate the legal genesis of the concept of secondary boycott in U.S. statutory law and its application in the relevant case law. For this purpose, a brief overview of the historical origin of the right to strike is provided, along with the analysis of the evolutionary process which led to its inclusion in the Constitutional Charts of many European countries. This introduction is followed by a description of the legislative steps towards the enactment of the Wagner Act (1935), as amended by the Taft-Hartley Act (1947), and of the Landrum-Griffin Act (1959), especially focusing on …