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comparative labour law and industrial relations in several European and
United States universities. He is the Secretary of the International Industrial
Relations Association and the Treasurer of the International Society
of Labour and Social Security Law. He has published several articles and
books on industrial relations, social dialogue and labour law.
Isabel da Costa is an economist and senior researcher at the Institutions
et Dynamiques Historiques de l’Economie research unit of the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, located at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Cachan near Paris. She teaches industrial relations at
the University of Paris-X Nanterre. Her research and publication themes
include industrial relations theories, comparative industrial relations, and
industrial relations developments at national, European and global levels.
Renée-Claude Drouin is Assistant Professor of law at the University
of Montreal in Canada. She completed a doctoral thesis on international
framework agreements at Cambridge University, United Kingdom,
in 2006. Her work focuses on labour law, with a particular interest in
international labour law and corporate social responsibility. She is also a
member of the Inter-University Research Centre on Globalization and
Work, a research unit that conducts studies on the social dynamics of
labour regulation in the global era.
Dan Gallin is the Chair of the Global Labour Institute in Geneva,
established in 1997. He worked from 1960 to 1997 for the International
Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and
Allied Workers’ Association, including a period as General Secretary from
1968. He served as President of the International Federation of Workers’
Education Associations from 1992 to 2003 and was Director of the
Organization and Representation Program of WIEGO (Women in Informal
Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) from 2000 to 2002. He
is still a member of the WIEGO steering committee.
Nikolaus Hammer is a lecturer in employment studies at the
Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester, United
Kingdom. He has published articles on industrial relations with regard to
international framework agreements (in Transfer, 2005, No. 4) and has
conducted related research on labour standards in multinational corporations
and global value chains. His recent research has focused on crossborder
labour markets in Europe and forms of transnational trade union
cooperation in interregional trade union councils.
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