Social Rights in Europe [Paperback]

The book is concerned with the legal framework for protecting and promoting social rights in Europe. Its chapters examine procedural and substantive aspects of the Council of Europe's European Social Charter and the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as the EU's so-called acquis in the area of social rights. They look at a range of issues, including the strengths and weaknesses of the two systems in terms of promoting and protecting social rights by examining the legal and political enforcement mechanisms as well as at some of the important substantive rights contained within each.


I
1. Introduction,Gr?inne de B?rca
2. Social Rights in European Constitutions,C?cile Fabre
II The European Social Charter
3. The Supervisory Machinery of the European Social Charter: Recent Developments and Their Impact,R?gis Brillat
4. Assessing the Framework of Supervision of the European Social Charter,Philip Alston
5. Domestic Enforcement of the European Social Charter: The Way Forward,Gisella Gori
6. The Material Impact of the Jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social Rights,Jean-Fran?ois Akandji-Komb?
III The European Union
7. Anchoring the European Union to the European Social Charter: The Case for Accession,Olivier De Schutter
8. The Trajectory of Fundamental Social Rights in the European Union,Bruno de Witte
9. Social and Labour Rights under the EU Constitution,Brian Bercusson
10. Fundamental Labour Rights after the Lisbon Agenda,Silvana Sciarra
11. How to Be Fundamental with Soft Procedures? The Open Method of Coordination and Fundamental Social Rights,Stijn Smismans
IV ESC Jurisprudence and the EU Acquis: the Common Core and the Added Value?
12. The Right to Work,Diamond Ashiagbor
13. Walking in the Same Direction?l#1