Reference no: EM133193003 , Length: word count:4500

International Labour Law

Learning Outcome 1: Critically engage with relevant contemporary legal issues.
Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of the contemporary issues pertaining to the core and option areas of study
Learning Outcome 3: Have a systematic understanding of current problems and contemporary issues and/or insights into the changing nature of UK and international organisations operating within a multi-national framework.
Learning Outcome 4: Demonstrate the capacity to work independently and to professional standards and display high order skills in legal research and writing.

Assessment guidelines
Produce a 4500-word essay exploring a relevant international labour law issue (+/- 10%) (Excluding the list of references) which offers students the ability to demonstrate their developing knowledge and application of the international labour law as covered within weeks of their study. It also encourages students to develop their thoughts and perspectives on International labour law theories and concepts.

ASSESSMENT TASK

An essay exploring relevant international labour law issues of no more than 4,500 words. Students should revise and improve their original assessment based on the feedback they received.

Possible essay titles:

1. "The vision of work-free childhoods as a global norm has long underpinned the approach of the International Labour Organisation. This vision has-at times-been tempered by recognition that improving the conditions of working children is a legitimate short-term objective". (Tatek Abebe and Sharon Bessell, Dominant Discourses (2011) 32 Debates and Silences on Child Labour in Africa and Asia 765).
Critically evaluate how successful the International Labour Organisation has been in tackling child labour.

2. "The relationship between labour law, wages, economic growth, employment and inequality is context-specific, depending greatly on macroeconomic and political variables. Research to date suggests that it is not possible to predict a specific employment outcome when labour standards are established." (Stephanie Luce, The case for international labour standards: a "Northern" perspective (2005), IDS Working Paper 250).

Critically evaluate the above statement with particular reference to the effectiveness of International Labour standards on equality.

3. "The International Labour Organisation argues that addressing the imbalances in work and family life is part of the winning formula to achieve gender equality at work". (Jane Hodges, The role of the International Labour Organisation in balancing work and family in the 21st century (2014) 56 Journal of Industrial Relations 556)
Critically analyse how the International Labour Organisation has tried to achieve gender equality at the workplace.

The structure of a critical essay
The main features of a critical essay are described below to provide a general guide. These should be used in conjunction with the instructions or guidelines provided by your module tutor.

Title Page
This should briefly but explicitly describe the purpose of the report (if this is not obvious from the title of the work); remember to add your name and student number/assessment number, and which assessment it pertains to.

Contents (Table of Contents)
The contents page should list the different chapters and/or headings together with the page numbers. Your contents page should be presented in such a way that the reader can quickly scan the list of headings and locate a particular part of the report. You may want to number chapter headings and subheadings in addition to providing page references. Whatever numbering system you use, be sure that it is clear and consistent throughout.

The Introduction

The introduction gives an overview of the research project you propose to carry out. It explains the background of the project, focusing briefly on the major issues of its knowledge domain and clarifying why these issues are worthy of attention. It then proceeds with the concise presentation of the research statement, which can take the form of a hypothesis, a research question, a project statement, or a goal statement. The research statement should capture both the essence of the project and its delimiting boundaries, and should be followed by a clarification of the extent to which you expect its outcomes to represent an advance in the knowledge domain you have described. The introduction should endeavour, from the very beginning, to catch the reader's interest and should be written in a style that can be understood easily by any reader with a general science background. It should cite all relevant references pertaining to the major issues described, and it should close with a brief description of each one of the chapters that follow. Many authors prefer to postpone writing the Introduction until the rest of the document is finished. This makes a lot of sense, since the act of writing tends to introduces many changes in the plans initially sketched by the writer, so that it is only by the time the whole document is finished that the writer gets a clear view of how to construct an introduction that is, indeed, compelling.

Literature Review
The State of the Art, also known as the Literature Review (or Foundations), serves a cluster of very important aims. First of all, it demonstrates that you have built a solid knowledge of the field where the research is taking place, that you are familiar with the main issues at stake, and that you have critically identified and evaluated the key literature. On the other hand, it shows you have created an innovative and coherent view integrating and synthesizing the main aspects of the field, so that you can now put into perspective the new direction that you propose to explore. The State of the Art must give credit to the authors who laid the groundwork for your research, so that when, in the following chapter, your research objectives are further clarified, the reader is able to recognize beyond doubt that what you are attempting to do has not been done in the past and that your research will likely make a significant contribution to the literature. It should be accompanied by comprehensive references, which you list at the end of the proposal. Ideally, all influential books, book chapters, papers and other texts produced in the knowledge domain you are exploring, which are of importance for your work, should be mentioned here and listed at the end of the proposal. You should follow very strictly the appropriate referencing conventions and make sure that no document you refer to is missing in the final list of references, nor vice versa. The choice of referencing conventions may depend on the specific field where your research is located.

Discussion
The main body of the essay is where you discuss your material. The literature and evidence you have gathered should be summarised, analysed and discussed with specific reference to the problem or issue. If your discussion section is lengthy you might divide it into section headings. Your points should be grouped and arranged in an order that is logical and easy to follow. Use headings and subheadings to create a clear structure for your material. As with the whole report, all sources used should be acknowledged and correctly referenced (remember to use the most credible resources available).

Conclusion
In the conclusion you should show the overall significance of what has been covered. You may want to remind the reader of the most important points that have been made in the report or highlight what you consider to be the most central issues or findings. However, no new material should be introduced in the conclusion. Remember to specifically answer the initial questions posed.

OSCOLA style of referencing

Attachment:- International Labour Law.rar