Labour rights as human rights / edited by Philip Alston ; Academy of European Law, European University Institute in collaboration with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Labour rights as human rights : the not so happy state of the art / Philip Alston -- Social rights in a globalized economy / Simon Deakin -- The right to bargain collectively in international law : workers' right, human right, international right? / Patrick Macklem -- Is the ILO effective in upholding workers' rights? : reflections on the Myanmar experience / Francis Maupain -- The labor dimension of the emerging Free Trade Area of the Americas / Steve Charnovitz -- Should the EU have the power to set minimum standards for collective labour rights in the member states? / A.C.L. Davies -- The European Union and international labour standards : the dynamics of dialogue between the EU and the ILO / Tonia Novitz.