Perspectives on Labour Law (Law in Context)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 6/18/2009
EAN 9780521722346, ISBN10: 0521722349
Paperback, 300 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
Policy discussions play an important role in labour law, and labour lawyers draw on a wide range of disciplines and approaches in order to construct their arguments. This overview of the basic principles of labour law and the related policy arguments introduces two of the main perspectives used in the analysis of labour law today – human rights and economics. It offers a brief history of the influence of human rights and economics on labour law since the 1950s, explains neoclassical and new institutional economics and summarises the historical development of international human rights law. The insights of rights theorists and economists are then applied to a selection of topics in labour law, including anti-discrimination law, dismissal, working time, pay, consultation and collective bargaining, trade union membership and industrial action, in order to demonstrate the interplay between the two perspectives.
Part I
1. A brief history of labour law
2. Economics perspectives on labour law
3. Human rights perspectives on labour law
4. Modes of regulation
Part II
5. Who is protected by employment law?
6. Working time
7. Discrimination
8. Wages
9. Dismissal
10. Collective representation
11. Trade Union membership
12. Industrial action
What next?