Overview
This collection addresses the potential of the European Social Charter to promote and safeguard social rights in Europe. Drawing on the expertise of the ETUI Transnational Trade Union Rights expert network from across Europe, it provides a comprehensive commentary on these fundamental rights. Taking a two part approach, it offers an in-depth legal analysis of the European Social Charter as a new social constitution for Europe, investigating first the potential of the general legal frame in which the Charter is embedded. In the second phase a series of social rights which are related to the employment relation are examined in particular in light of the jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR), to demonstrate the crucial but difficult role of the Charter's supervisory bodies to secure the respect and promotion of social rights and national level, bearing in mind the reciprocal influence of other international social rights instruments. This examination is timely, given the pressure exerted on those rights during the recent period of economic crisis. Furthermore, in the light of the predominantly economic vision of Europe, such analysis is crucial. The collection is aimed at stimulating academic scrutiny and raising awareness amongst practitioners and trade unions about this important and equally necessary anchor of the social dimension of Europe in legal and political practice.
Full Product Details
Author: Professor Niklas Bruun (Hanken School of Economics, Finland) ,
Klaus Lörcher (Former Legal Adviser to the European Trade Union Confederation, Belgium) ,
Isabelle Schömann ,
Stefan Clauwaert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Weight: 0.767kg
ISBN: 9781509929719
ISBN 10: 1509929711
Pages: 552
Publication Date: 30 May 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
One of the book's strengths is that, from a methodological perspective, it is written in a systematic and transparent manner, allowing the reader to locate the desired information with ease ... One can only hope that the reviewed collection will stimulate further academic scrutiny and will significantly raise awareness amongst practitioners and trade unions about, as the authors eloquently put it in the foreword, the 'necessary anchor of the social dimensions of the European Union in legal and political practice. -- Primoz Rataj * European Journal of Social Security *
One of the book's strengths is that, from a methodological perspective, it is written in a systematic and transparent manner, allowing the reader to locate the desired information with ease ... One can only hope that the reviewed collection will stimulate further academic scrutiny and will significantly raise awareness amongst practitioners and trade unions about, as the authors eloquently put it in the foreword, the 'necessary anchor of the social dimensions of the European Union in legal and political practice. -- Primož Rataj * European Journal of Social Security *
Author Information
Niklas Bruun is Professor of Law at the Hanken School of Law, Helsinki. Klaus Lörcher is former Legal Adviser to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and former Legal Secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union. Isabelle Schömann is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). Stefan Clauwaert is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). They are all members of the Transnational Trade Union Rights (TTUR) Experts Network of the ETUI.
