- Title Pages
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come?
- 1 Labour Law After Labour
- 2 Factors Influencing the Making and Transformation of Labour Law in Europe
- 3 Re-Inventing Labour Law?
- 4 Hugo Sinzheimer and the Constitutional Function of Labour Law
- 5 Global Conceptualizations and Local Constructions of the Idea of Labour Law
- 6 The Idea of the Idea of Labour Law: A Parable
- 7 Labour Law's Theory of Justice
- 8 Labour as a ‘Fictive Commodity’: Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law
- 9 Theories of Rights as Justifications for Labour Law
- 10 The Contribution of Labour Law to Economic and Human Development
- 11 Re-Matching Labour Laws with Their Purpose
- 12 The Legal Characterization of Personal Work Relations and the Idea of Labour Law
- 13 Ideas of Labour Law – A View from the South
- 14 Informal Employment and the Challenges for Labour Law
- 15 The Impossibility of Work Law
- 16 Using Procurement Law to Enforce Labour Standards
- 17 Labor Activism in Local Politics: From CBAs to ‘CBAs’
- 18 The Broad Idea of Labour Law: Industrial Policy, Labour Market Regulation, and Decent Work
- 19 The Third Function of Labour Law: Distributing Labour Market Opportunities among Workers
- 20 Beyond Collective Bargaining: Modern Unions as Agents of Social Solidarity
- 21 From Conflict to Regulation: The Transformative Function of Labour Law
- 22 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 Flexible Bureaucracies in Labor Market Regulation
- 24 Collective Exit Strategies: New Ideas in Transnational Labour Law
- 25 Emancipation in the Idea of Labour Law
- Index
Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come?
Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come?
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction: Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come?
- Source:
- The Idea of Labour Law
- Author(s):
Guy Davidov
Brian Langille
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This is an introduction in which the purpose of the book is explained and a brief outline of the each chapter is provided. One of the questions that continue to hover in the background throughout most of the book is whether the idea of labour law is constant or changing. Is it different in different countries? Should it change as circumstances change? Is it the same at the national and international level, or for developed and developing economies? Are we looking for new solutions to old problems? Or are perhaps the problems themselves new? Are we trying to provide a better understanding of an existing body of law, or are we searching for a new legal order? Otherwise put, is the idea of labour law a timeless one, an outdated one, or is labour law, better understood, a new idea whose time has now come?
Keywords: labour law, idea of labor law, national level, international level, new legal order
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- Title Pages
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come?
- 1 Labour Law After Labour
- 2 Factors Influencing the Making and Transformation of Labour Law in Europe
- 3 Re-Inventing Labour Law?
- 4 Hugo Sinzheimer and the Constitutional Function of Labour Law
- 5 Global Conceptualizations and Local Constructions of the Idea of Labour Law
- 6 The Idea of the Idea of Labour Law: A Parable
- 7 Labour Law's Theory of Justice
- 8 Labour as a ‘Fictive Commodity’: Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law
- 9 Theories of Rights as Justifications for Labour Law
- 10 The Contribution of Labour Law to Economic and Human Development
- 11 Re-Matching Labour Laws with Their Purpose
- 12 The Legal Characterization of Personal Work Relations and the Idea of Labour Law
- 13 Ideas of Labour Law – A View from the South
- 14 Informal Employment and the Challenges for Labour Law
- 15 The Impossibility of Work Law
- 16 Using Procurement Law to Enforce Labour Standards
- 17 Labor Activism in Local Politics: From CBAs to ‘CBAs’
- 18 The Broad Idea of Labour Law: Industrial Policy, Labour Market Regulation, and Decent Work
- 19 The Third Function of Labour Law: Distributing Labour Market Opportunities among Workers
- 20 Beyond Collective Bargaining: Modern Unions as Agents of Social Solidarity
- 21 From Conflict to Regulation: The Transformative Function of Labour Law
- 22 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 Flexible Bureaucracies in Labor Market Regulation
- 24 Collective Exit Strategies: New Ideas in Transnational Labour Law
- 25 Emancipation in the Idea of Labour Law
- Index
