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The ‘ Singapore scenario’: the uncertain prospects for labour standards in post‐ Brexit Britain
Author(s) -
Woolfson Charles
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/irj.12198
Subject(s) - brexit , austerity , incentive , government (linguistics) , economics , political science , labour economics , economic policy , european union , market economy , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy
The Conservative government of Theresa May asserted that labour standards would be preserved post‐Brexit. The Labour Party also privileged labour standards in its anti‐austerity programme. The threat remains however that Brexit will provide an incentive to erode labour standards in a global ‘race to the bottom’ in a ‘Singapore scenario’.