The Future of Labor Rights: Global Perspectives and Emerging Challenges
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: employment law; AI and labour rights; labour law and personhood
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Future of Jobs Report (World Economic Forum 2025) highlights a number of global challenges for labour in the 21st century. Technological change (including artificial intelligence), geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts, and the green transition are all cited as pressing global challenges which need to be addressed. These global challenges intersect with changes in the constitution of labour markets and collective and individual employment relationships, which, together, serve to fundamentally alter the context and the baseline upon which labour rights operate. In turn, these challenges underscore the lack of effectiveness of our current set of (global, national, and international) labour laws for the labour constituency, as well as changing the content priorities for labour rights. Increasingly, the concerns of labour rights must expand to issues outside of the traditional labour law domain and engage with different fields of law, as well as wider political and social developments. New legal innovations are emerging, and new interdisciplinary connections are being made.
In this Special Issue, we invite contributions which investigate the global, international and national challenges faced by labour and the potential of Labour Rights to address and respond to thsese challenges. We seek to give voice to a wide range of different perspectives on this issue, and invite contributions from any global legal jurisdiction and approaches which adopt different methodological and interdisciplinary approaches to the question of the changing context and content of labour rights.
Dr. Lisa Rodgers
Prof. Dr. Miriam Kullmann
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- labour law
- labour rights
- social change
- artificial intelligence
- legal innovation
- future
- jobs
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