Labour and the Wage - A Critical Perspective

This book examines the problem of wage security and clarity of employment in labour law. It studies the neoclassical and institutional models of labour law, and the wage. It concludes that the way the wage is treated in labour law theory is dependent upon the way legal concepts themselves are conceptualized by their users.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: An Ontology of Capitalism


• 2: Legal Form


• 3: The Wage


• 4: The Emergence of the Wage


• 5: Wages, Salary and Remuneration - Towards a Social Wage


• 6: The (Return of the) 'Market Wage'


• 7: The Statutory Minimum Wage


• 8: Mutuality of Obligation and the Social Wage


• 9: Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Official Publications

About the author

Zoe Adams has a BA from Pembroke College, Cambridge, an LLM from the European University Institute in Florence, and a PhD from Pembroke College Cambridge. Her academic interests lie primarily in the realm of labour law, legal theory, legal methodology, social ontology, and law and economics. She is a Junior Research Fellow at King's College Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge. She teaches tort law, labour law, and law and economics.

Summary

This book examines the problem of wage security and clarity of employment in labour law. It studies the neoclassical and institutional models of labour law, and the wage. It concludes that the way the wage is treated in labour law theory is dependent upon the way legal concepts themselves are conceptualized by their users.

Product details

• Authors: Zoe Adams, Zoe (Junior Research Fellow Adams, Adams Zoe
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780198858898
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885889-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: OX LABOUR LAW SERIES CLOTH
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, LAW / Labor & Employment, LAW / Jurisprudence, Labour / income economics, Employment & Labour Law, Employment & Unemployment, Employment and labour law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law