Perspectives on labour law / A.C.L. Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, A. C. L. (Anne C. L.), author.

Series:

Law in context.

Law in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor laws and legislation--Great Britain.

Labor laws and legislation.

Employee rights--Great Britain.

Employee rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlii, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A brief history of labour law

Economics perspectives on labour law

Human rights perspectives on labour law

Mode of regulation

Who is protected by employment law

Working time

Discrimination

Wages

Dismissal

Collective representation

Trade union membership

Industrial action

What next?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20188-8

0-511-65099-X

0-511-57941-1

0-511-58015-0

0-511-57867-9

0-511-62696-7