The Idea of Labour Law
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The Idea of Labour Law

The Idea of Labour Law


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Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. This crisis has an obvious external dimension - labour law is attacked for impeding efficiency, flexibility, and development; vilified for reducing employment and for favouring already well placed employees over less fortunate ones; and discredited for failing to cover the most vulnerable workers and workers in the "informal sector". These are just some of the external challenges to labour law. There is also an internal challenge, as labour lawyers themselves increasingly question whether their discipline is conceptually coherent, relevant to the new empirical realities of the world of work, and normatively salient in the world as we now know it. This book responds to such fundamental challenges by asking the most fundamental questions: What is labour law for? How can it be justified? And what are the normative premises on which reforms should be based? There has been growing interest in such questions in recent years. In this volume the contributors seek to take this body of scholarship seriously and also to move it forward. Its aim is to provide, if not answers which satisfy everyone, intellectually nourishing food for thought for those interested in understanding, explaining and interpreting labour laws - whether they are scholars, practitioners, judges, policy-makers, or workers and employers.

Table of Contents:
Guy Davidov and Brian Langille: Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come? The Idea of Labour Law in Historical Context 1: Harry Arthurs: Labour Law After Labour 2: Bob Hepple: Factors Influencing the Making and Transformation of Labour Law in Europe 3: Manfred Weiss: Re-Inventing Labour Law? 4: Ruth Dukes: Hugo Sinzheimer and the Constitutional Function of Labour Law 5: Adrián Goldin: Global Conceptualizations and Local Constructions on the Idea of Labour Law 6: Alan Hyde: The Idea of the Idea of Labour Law: A Parable Normative Foundations of the Idea of Labour Law 7: Brian Langille: Labour Law's Theory of Justice 8: Judy Fudge: Labour as a 'Fictive Commodity': Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law 9: Hugh Collins: Theories of Rights as Justifications for Labour Law 10: Simon Deakin: The Contribution of Labour Law to Economic and Human Development Normative Foundations and Legal Ideas: Rethinking Existing Structures 11: Guy Davidov: Re-Matching Labour Laws with Their Purpose 12: Mark Freedland and Nicola Kountouris: The Legal Characterization of Personal Work Relations and the Idea of Labour Law 13: Paul Benjamin: Ideas of Labour Law - Views From the South 14: Kamala Sankaran: Informal Employment and the Challenges for Labour Law 15: Noah Zatz: The Impossibility of Work Law 16: Catherine Barnard: Procurement Law to Enforce Labour Standards 17: Katherine V.W. Stone and Scott L. Cummings: Labor Activism in Local Politics: From CBAs to 'CBAs' and Beyond New Labour Law Ideas: Rethinking Existing Boundaries 18: John Howe: The Broad Idea of Labour Law: Industrial Policy, Labour Market Regulation, and Decent Work 19: Guy Mundlak: The Third Function of Labor Law: Distributing Labor Market Opportunities Among Workers 20: Gillian Lester: Beyond Collective Bargaining: Modern Unions as Agents of Social Solidarity 21: Julia López, Consuelo Chacartegui, and César G Cantón: From Conflict to Regulation: The Transformative Function of Labour Law New Ideas of Labour Law from an International Perspective 22: Leah Vosko: Out of the Shadows? The Non-Binding Multilateral Framework on Migration (2006) and Prospects for Using International Labour Regulation to Forge Global Labour Market Membership 23: Michael Piore: Flexible Bureaucracies in Labor Market Regulation 24: Silvana Sciarra: Collective Exit Strategies: New Ideas in Transnational Labour Law 25: Adelle Blackett: Emancipation in the Idea of Labour Law: Commoditization, Resistance and Distributive Justice beyond borders

About the Author :
Guy Davidov is Vice-Dean and Elias Lieberman Chair in Labour Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied at Tel-Aviv University (LLB) and the University of Toronto (LLM, SJD) and has previously been a faculty member at the University of Haifa, before joining the Hebrew University in 2007. He is co-editor of the Israeli journal Labour, Society and Law, and a member of the executive board of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security. He has published widely on labour law issues, especially dealing with the normative justifications for different labour regulations. Brian Langille is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has twice served as Associate Dean (Graduate Studies), served as Acting Dean in 2003-04, and as Interim Dean in 2005. A native of Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. from Acadia, his LL.B from Dalhousie Law school, and the B.C.L. from Oxford. He taught at Dalhousie Law School prior to joining the University of Toronto in 1983. His numerous publications are concerned with labour law and legal theory. Professor Langille was a member of Canadian delegations to both the Governing Body and the International Labour Conference of the ILO (International Labour Organization), a consultant to the Federal and various provincial governments on domestic and international labour issues, a consultant to the ILO, and a Rapporteur to the OECD, and a member of the executive of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security. He is an editor of the International Labour Law Reports, and a member of the Labour Law Casebook Group.

Review :
`The Idea of Labour Law is an exciting and highly inspiring text for all who wish to inform themselves about the subject of labour law beyond the common issues.' Daniela Kroemer. ZAS


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199693610
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 840 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199693617
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jun 2011
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 454
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Width: 159 mm


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