A stimulating, authoritative account of international employment law written by a leading figure who for many years has shaped global policy, striving to implement fairer working conditions worldwide. We are expertly guided though the context and development of labour law, making this book ideal for study or research.

ARTURO BRONSTEIN specializes in international and comparative labour law. In recent years he provided advice on the revision of the Labour Law in several countries of Central Europe, such as (then) Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia and the territory of Kosovo. He also advised in 2001 the government of Cambodia, on the adoption of rules on enterprise level collective bargaining and collective disputes arbitration. He has authored many publications in the field of labour law and labour relations.
Having served at the ILO for 21 years, culminating in an appointment to Senior Labour Policy Advisor, Arturo Bronstein, has been influential in putting in place labour standards internationally. He left the ILO in November 2005, and since retiring has been lecturing on international and comparative labour law at the universities of Buenos Aires (Argentina), York (Ontario, Canada) and Paris X-Nanterre (France). He is the current Secretary General of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law: http://www.asociacion.org.ar/ISLLSS