21210062 - Global economy and labour rights

The course is aimed at critically addressing, at an advanced level, central aspects of contemporary economic analysis. The determinants of income distribution and relative prices will be examined following alternative approaches.
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Programme

Sustainable Development, Global Economy and Social Rights: why we need a linkage
The International Labour Organization.
The International Labour Standards
The balance between competition and social rights at European level: the internal action of EU
The EU internal action
The EU as an international actor: the external action
European Trade Agreements
International Trade Agreements
National and international CSR
Codes of Conduct and CSR tools: an evolutionary perspective
The social clause
The most important international trade agreements
The role of multinational companies

Laws regulating Labour contracts and status, social security systems and industrial relations
Social Clauses, Codes of Conduct and CSR: an evolutionary perspective
Selected case studies, guest lectures and students’ presentations


Core Documentation

Title book J. M. Servais, International Labour Law, Seventh edition, Wolters Kluwer International, 2022.
Additionally/Alternatively, just for Italian speaking students, Brino V., Perulli A., Diritto Internazionale del Lavoro, Terza edizione, Giappichelli, Torino, 2023.




Type of delivery of the course

Face to face lessons.

Type of evaluation

The final assessment will be based on both an intermediate written test and a final oral interview (in English) concerning more topics selected by the teacher from those analyzed during the course.