Overview

Labour law is in crisis. Global economic factors and the changing contours of work and workplace relations have led to a reorientation of the social, economic, political and cultural environment within which labour law has developed. This is not a jurisdictional problem but rather is deeply entrenched in transnational development. Solutions must recognise and mobilise the transformational shift that has taken place over recent decades. Law should be viewed as a force for and a facilitator of change, capable of expressing and determining social relations. The essays in this book explore the challenges posed by labour law's potential reinvention as a discipline fit for accommodating and investigating such change within a range of different but connected jurisdictional and regulatory concepts and paradigms.

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Author:   Nicole Busby ,  Douglas Brodie ,  Rebecca Zahn
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9781137432438

ISBN 10:   1137432438
Pages:   257
Publication Date:   01 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- PART I: The Regulation of Work: Imagining the Future.- 1. A New Vocabulary and Imaginary for Labour Law: Taking Legal Constitution, Gender, and Social Reproduction Seriously; Judy Fudge.- 2. Labour Law: Issues of Inclusion and Differentiation; Douglas Brodie.- 3. The Equality Agenda; Bob Hepple.- PART II: Beyond the Employment Contract?.- 4. Regulating the Engagement of Non-Employed Labour: A View from the Antipodes; Joellen Riley.- 5. The Changing Nature of Work and the Regulation of Health and Safety; Richard Johnstone.- PART III: Shifting Paradigms.- 6. Labour Market Regulation in Asia: The Growing Dominance of Market-based Mechanisms?; John Benson.- 7. Collective Labour Rights in EU and International Law: Consolidation, Reconciliation and Beyond?; Nicole Busby and Rebecca Zahn.- 8. Reforms of Collective Labour Law in Time of Crisis: Towards a New Landscape for Industrial Relations in the European Union?; Isabelle Schömann.- PART IV: Alternative Structures: Fundamental Social Rights, Decent Work and Human Rights.- 9. What is Decent about 'Decent Work'? An Argument for a Right to Decent Work in South Africa; Jan Theron.- 10. Labour in the Economic Social Cultural Rights Regime of the Inter-American System on Human Rights; Rose-Marie Belle Antoine.- Conclusions.

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Douglas Brodie is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde, UK Nicole Busby is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Strathclyde, UK Rebecca Zahn is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde, UK

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