Perspectives on Labour Law / Edition 2

by A. C. L. Davies

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521897570
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/18/2009
Series:	Law in Context
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Anne Davies is Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford, and Reader in Public Law at the University of Oxford, where she teaches Labour Law and Public Law.

Table of Contents

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?

Editorial Reviews

'Perspectives on Labour Law has hit the nail on the head as an introduction to the subject.' Professor Paul Davies, London School of Economics

'Davies seeks to make her readers see the relevance and importance of legal norms in the sphere of industrial relations. In my view, this is an enterprise in which she is successful … What Davies has done, in a remarkably clear-sighted fashion, is to identify where most debate over the form and content of labour law is now focussed. If I were an undergraduate now, studying labour law for the first time, I would want the guidance that this text-book can provide. Indeed, the conceptual clarity which it offers is useful for teachers and practitioners of labour law too.' Tonia Novitz, Industrial Law Journal

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