This book aims to explore the prospects of a global labour law system.
Global labour law is understood as a still non-coherent set of
norms that at different levels and with different legal effectiveness
regulate legal labour relations, promote respect for fundamental social
rights, and condition the behavior of the multinational enterprise,
from a social justice and sustainability perspective. The book
deals with both international labour law and regulatory instruments
of different kinds (such as social clauses in international trade treaties
or corporate codes of conduct, transnational collective bargaining,
EU directives on due diligence, etc.). This complex normative
“system” is partly reconstructed and partly subjected to critique,
with the aim of producing a kind of hybrid handbook in which the
elements of normative knowledge are accompanied by problematic
reasoning about the forms, contents and purposes of a possible global
labour law.