Reflexive law, corporate social responsibility and the evolution of labour standards: the case of working time

Catherine Barnard, Simon Deakin and Richard Hobbs

Working Papers from Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge

Abstract: Through an empirical study of working time in the United Kingdom, we explore the scope for initiatives based on corporate social responsibility (CSR) to engender voluntary action by employers to raise labour standards. Our evidence suggests that a CSR-based approach faces considerable problems of implementation in this area, in large part because the legal mechanisms which might underpin CSR ('reflexive law') have not yet been effectively developed.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; labour standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J53 J81 K31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-12
Note: PRO-2
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