The United Nations Human Rights Council's unanimous endorsement of the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (UNGP) in 2011 was a milestone and turning point in the debate on the human rights implications of business activities. Although not legally binding, the UNGP have since influenced different sources of hard and soft law at the national and international level. In this contribution to the multidisciplinary Research Handbooks in Human Rights series published by Edward Elgar, Janice R. Belace and Beryl ter Haar take on the challenge of bringing together 30 (mostly legal) scholars to explore the notion of labour and human rights law. The 24 chapters are organized into four parts, which include an introduction to conceptual issues of labour and human rights law (Part I), the analysis and discussion of sources of national law in eleven single-country studies (Part II), reflections on fundamental rights (Part III, eight chapters) and, a discussion of business and human rights (Part IV, four chapters). At the beginning of the introductory chapter, the editors identify the starting point and core challenge of their project, the disconnectedness and lack of interaction between the labour law and the human rights law fields, despite the interaction of human rights and labour law protection. Human rights scholars seem to focus on public law while leaving employment and industrial relations largely to private law. Similarly, one could argue that labour law and industrial relations scholars have limited their analysis to labour rights and labour markets, shying away from embedding labour issues in a human rights context. This observation of separate paths and silo-based academic analysis in human rights law and labour law also applies to the academic field of business and management. Here, the discussion of human rights and labour issues is usually confined to areas such business ethics and corporate social responsibility and is often playing a rather marginal role. Against this background of disconnectedness, this collection serves as an excellent starting point for identifying and exploring linkages and bridges between the fields of labour, business and human rights, and for inspiring future industrial relations research. Part I explores the different perspectives on labour and human rights and sets the scene for the contributions of the remaining book chapters, by providing short overviews and discussing the context of the respective debates. Each of the topics covered, ranging from the historical development of human rights terminology to the controversial discussion on the role of human rights in the workplace and in capitalist society to globalization and its links to human dignity, equity and justice, provide food for thought and springboards for elaboration in further research. Part II outlines sources of human rights at work in national law, with single country chapters organized into the three categories of civil law countries, common law countries and transition economies. While providing comprehensive and competent overviews, the country-by-country description and discussion of human rights at work highlights the potential for comparative analysis within and across the country clusters. Interesting insights could also be gained by opening up the predominantly legal analysis of human rights at work to integrate elements from law and economics, comparative economics, varieties of capitalism and comparative political economy. Part III includes three sections on topical themes organized around (Section A) specific human rights in the workplace, (Section B) international governance at UN and regional level, and (Section C) a-typical and non-standard forms of work. The specific human rights covered in Section A, freedom of association, freedom from child labour and gender equality, reflect the advantages of a topical approach to comparative analysis. Future research could engage in more in-depth analysis, or explore additional human rights at work, e.g. privacy in the workplace. Section B highlights the multi-level character of labour and human rights, calling for an integrated multi-level perspective on labour and human rights governance. Section C, which discusses non-standard and a-typical work, reminds us of the need to explore phenomena such as migrant work and labour in the informal economy. The four chapters of Part IV establish the link to the current business and human rights debate, covering topics such as the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises, CSR, labour and human rights due diligence, extraterritorial regulation, global value chains, international trade agreements, the Global Compact and the UNGPs. This may inspire the reader to engage in advanced readings and empirical research. The book provides food for thought for developing a human rights perspective on work, employment and industrial relations. It inspires the reader to leave their comfort zone and move outside their own human rights law and labour law/industrial relations silos, opening up the potential for future analysis of human rights at work and human rights aspects of industrial relations. Two potential areas of future research are particularly noteworthy. First, at the conceptual and theoretical level, both the human rights field and the industrial relations field are operating with different sets of frames of reference, with pluralist and radical frames of reference existing in both fields. At this level, a comparative analysis and discussion of the respective assumptions, values and underlying social theories may contribute to a better understanding of actors, interests, actor-relationships and institutions, and thus may inform the establishment and implementation of effective business and human rights governance. Second, the time is ripe for more systematic and sophisticated qualitative and quantitative empirical research on the intersection between human rights, labour law and industrial relations, be it comparative, multi-level and/or topics or phenomenon focussed. At the time of publication, the UN level debates on the draft Business and Human Rights Treaty are in full swing. The editors of this publication deserve commendation for making a timely contribution which explores and opens up a human rights perspective on work for a labour law and industrial relations audience. Overall, the book deserves a place amongst the core industrial relations literature.