Labour Legislation and Public Policy - A Contemporary History

Zusatztext `impressive book ... Their explanation for transformation ... is elegantly composed and always readable! effectively synthesising legal! political and economic explanations ... Davies and Freedland have written what is by some distance the best book on this subject ... Labour Legislation and Public Policy points the way to a more specialised approach! which does not lose sight of the essential need to relate law to its economic and political context'Labour History Review Informationen zum Autor Paul Davies and Mark Freedland co-wrote Labour Law: Cases and Materials (Weidenfeld and Nicolson - second edition 1980) which was very highly respected and became the standard teaching text until it became out of date in the mid-1980s.Paul Davies is the editor of Oxford's Industrial Law Journal and Mark Freedland is the author of The Contract of Employment (OUP, 1972) - sales?Offering students a completely new approach to labour law Zusammenfassung In this path-breaking work, the authors seek to offer students a fresh way of looking at modern labour law. By taking as their starting point the idea that labour law, having once been governed by common law rules, is now overwhelmingly regulated by statute, the authors show that labour law can only be studied properly by understanding the legislation behind it.They then proceed to lead the student to an understanding of how and why the legislation came to be enacted. They therefore examine, in chronological order, the history and political context of every major piece of labour legislation from 1945 up to and including the momentous changes of the Thatcher years. Guiding the reader through four and a half decades of almost continuous legislative activity, the authors successfully demonstrate how the law was created and why it looks as it does today. No other textbook on this subject takes this approach.

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• Authors: Andrew Davies, P.l. Freedland Davies, Paul Davies, Paul Freedland Davies, DAVIES P L FREEDLAND MARK R, Mark Freedland, Mark R. Freedland
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.1993
• EAN: 9780198760603
• ISBN: 978-0-19-876060-3
• No. of pages: 728
• Series: Clarendon Law Series; Clarendon Law Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Labour law, social law; England, Wales, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, LAW / Labor & Employment, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, British & Irish history, Industrial Relations, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, C 1945 To C 1960, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, Employment & Labour Law, Employment and labour law: general