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Via a comparison of traditional understandings of labour law with market-focused approaches brought to the fore by globalization, Dukes contends that the labour constitution continues to offer a vital framework for scholarly analysis, emphasizing the critical nature of the link between democracy and the protection of workers' rights.
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Ruth Dukes is a Professor of Labour Law at the University of Glasgow. She holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh (LLB), the Humboldt University in Berlin (LLM with distinction), and the London School of Economics (PhD). In 2010, she was awarded the Modern Law Review's Wedderburn Prize for her article 'Otto Kahn-Freund and Collective Laissez-Faire: an Edifice without a Keystone?'. In 2011-12 she was an Early Career Fellow of the AHRC and a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Employment Rights.
Summary
Via a comparison of traditional understandings of labour law with market-focused approaches brought to the fore by globalization, Dukes contends that the labour constitution continues to offer a vital framework for scholarly analysis, emphasizing the critical nature of the link between democracy and the protection of workers' rights.
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Ruth Dukes gifts us an ambitious scholarly accomplishment that conveys a compelling message. In its origins, labour law was committed to achieving egalitarian redistribution, democratizing economic life, and ending domination and subordination in work. Recently, it has forsaken these enduring aspirations. We should recover and modernize them, and re-orient our work in their light.
