Twenty-first century enterprise is generating ever changing methods of
producing goods and services and is deploying them throughout the developed
and developing world. These internationally portable systems can create
social and economic problems, just as the innovative factory system did
in the nineteenth century. In the past, the nations of Europe, North America,
and the Pacific rim looked to one another's experiences for guidance in
fashioning a legal response. As in the past, it continues to make sense today
to see what various legal approaches have been taken to deal with this new
generation of workplace issues, such as the loss of privacy enabled by
information technology, the shifting of greater risk on to the employee,
and the loss of voice resulting from the decline in traditional union
representation. The Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law Policy
has four basic components, instruction, research, the stimulation and sharing
of thought, and the dissemination of the fruits of outstanding scholarship
and is home to the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal.
