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The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lee, S., & McCann, D. The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation

The World Bank's new Business Ready (B-READY) project replaces the controversial Doing Business index in assessing global business and investment environments and is intended to galvanise legal reform in countries across the world. The project is dri... Read More about The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation.

Quality, Formality and the Evolution of International Labour Law: The New ILO Quality Apprenticeships Standard (2024)
Journal Article
Mccann, D., & Stewart, A. (online). Quality, Formality and the Evolution of International Labour Law: The New ILO Quality Apprenticeships Standard. Industrial Law Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwae012

In an era of sequential crises and spiralling youth unemployment, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has adopted an historic instrument: the Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No 208). This article explores the Recommendation as b... Read More about Quality, Formality and the Evolution of International Labour Law: The New ILO Quality Apprenticeships Standard.

Labour/Data Justice: A New Framework For Labour/Regulatory Datafication (2022)
Journal Article
McCann, D., & Cruz-Santiago, A. (2022). Labour/Data Justice: A New Framework For Labour/Regulatory Datafication. Journal of Law and Society, 49(4), 658-680. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12392

Labour datafication – the accelerating quantification of working life encompassing data-use that extracts additional value from workers – is increasingly recognised as a dimension of the future of work. This article proposes a notion of ‘labour/data... Read More about Labour/Data Justice: A New Framework For Labour/Regulatory Datafication.

A Strategic Approach to Regulating Unacceptable Forms of Work (2019)
Journal Article
McCann, D., & Fudge, J. (2019). A Strategic Approach to Regulating Unacceptable Forms of Work. Journal of Law and Society, 46(2), 271-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12152

Upgrading low‐waged and insecure work is central to contemporary labour and development initiatives, from the UN Sustainable Development Goals to the United Kingdom ‘Taylor Review’. The International Labour Organization’s notion of unacceptable forms... Read More about A Strategic Approach to Regulating Unacceptable Forms of Work.

Unacceptable Forms of Work: A Multidimensional Model (2017)
Journal Article
McCann, D., & Fudge, J. (2017). Unacceptable Forms of Work: A Multidimensional Model. International Labour Review, 156(2), 147-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12002

Unacceptable forms of work (UFW) have been identified as an Area of Critical Importance for the ILO as it approaches its centenary. Yet there is presently no comprehensive elaboration of the dimensions, causes or manifestations of UFW. This article r... Read More about Unacceptable Forms of Work: A Multidimensional Model.

Travel time as working time: Tyco, the unitary model and the route to casualization (2016)
Journal Article
McCann, D. (2016). Travel time as working time: Tyco, the unitary model and the route to casualization. Industrial Law Journal, 45(2), 244-250. https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dww010

As casualisation strategies have proliferated in the wake of the global crisis, techniques to exclude discrete time periods from the working day are increasingly being devised. Vulnerable periods are targeted and configured as regulatory no-man’s lan... Read More about Travel time as working time: Tyco, the unitary model and the route to casualization.

Unacceptable Forms of Work : A global and comparative study (2015)
Report
Fudge, J., & McCann, D. (2015). Unacceptable Forms of Work : A global and comparative study. [No known commissioning body]

Unacceptable forms of work (UFW) have been identified by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as work in conditions that deny fundamental principles and rights at work, put at risk the lives, health, freedom, human dignity and security of work... Read More about Unacceptable Forms of Work : A global and comparative study.

Equality Through Precarious Work Regulation: Lessons from the Domestic Work Debates in Defence of the Standard Employment Relationship (2014)
Journal Article
McCann, D. (2014). Equality Through Precarious Work Regulation: Lessons from the Domestic Work Debates in Defence of the Standard Employment Relationship. International Journal of Law in Context, 10(4), 507-521. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744552314000251

Precarious work is a crucial impediment to substantive equality. This paper examines the regulation of precariousness in the light of two recent trends: the casualisation of employment in the wake of the crisis, and global efforts to regulate domesti... Read More about Equality Through Precarious Work Regulation: Lessons from the Domestic Work Debates in Defence of the Standard Employment Relationship.

Prompting Formalisation Through Labour Market Regulation: A ‘Framed Flexibility’ Model for Domestic Work (2014)
Journal Article
McCann, D., & Murray, J. (2014). Prompting Formalisation Through Labour Market Regulation: A ‘Framed Flexibility’ Model for Domestic Work. Industrial Law Journal, 43(3), 319-348. https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwu018

There is an urgent need to conceptualise the potential for legal regulation of informal labour markets. This article responds by centring on one facet of the informal economy, namely domestic work. Efforts to regulate domestic work have intensified i... Read More about Prompting Formalisation Through Labour Market Regulation: A ‘Framed Flexibility’ Model for Domestic Work.

Creative Labour Regulation: Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World (2014)
Book
McCann, D., Belser, P., Fenwick, C., Howe, J., Lee, S., & Luebker, M. (Eds.). (2014). Creative Labour Regulation: Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World. Palgrave Macmillan/International Labour Organization

The book identifies three central challenges to contemporary labour regulation: intensifying labour market fragmentation; complex interactions between labour market institutions; and obstacles to effective enforcement. International in scope, the vol... Read More about Creative Labour Regulation: Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World.