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Regulating labour in the wake of globalisation : new challenges, new institutions / Brian Bercusson and Cynthia Estlund -- Corporate self-regulation : political economy, state regulation and reflexive labour law / Harry Arthurs -- Toward a democratic model of transnational labour monitoring? / Mark Barenberg -- Timing is everything : industrialization, legal origin and the evolution of the contract of employment in Britain and continental Europe / Simon Deakin -- Rebuilding the law of the workplace in an era of self-regulation / Cynthia Estlund -- Flexibilization, globalization, and privatization: three challenges to labour rights in our time / Katherine V.W. Stone -- Law, norms, and complex discrimination / Susan Sturm -- The WTO as a mechanism for labour regulation / Bob Hepple -- A changing institutional architecture of the European social model? / Brian Bercusson -- International regulation of the global economy : the role of trade unions / K.D. Ewing -- Alternative mechanisms of voice representation / Ulrich Mückenberger -- The originality of transnational social norms as a response to globalisation / Marie-Ange Moreau.

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