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Zusatztext [a] valuable book which is worthy of a place on any labour lawyers bookshelf. Informationen zum Autor The book has emerged from a series of international conferences held in recent years under the auspices of INTELL - International Network on Transformative Employment and Labour Law. The editors are co-secretaries of INTELL, teach and research in labour law, and have published widely within and beyond that field. Klappentext Throughout the industrial world, the discipline of labor law has fallen into deep philosophical and policy crisis, at the same time as new theoretical approaches make it a field of considerable intellectual ferment. Modern labor law evolved in a symbiotic relationship with a postwar institutional and policy agenda, the social, economic and political underpinnings of which have gradually eroded in the context of accelerating international economic integration and wage-competition. These essays - which are the product of a transnational comparative dialog among academics and practitioners in labor law and related legal fields, including social security, immigration, trade, and development - identify, analyze, and respond to some of the conceptual and policy challenges posed by globalization. Zusammenfassung Throughout the industrial world, the discipline of labour law has fallen into deep philosophical and policy crisis, at the same time as new theoretical approaches make it a field of considerable intellectual ferment. Modern labour law evolved in a symbiotic relationship with a postwar institutional and policy agenda, the social, economic and political underpinnings of which have gradually eroded in the context of accelerating international economic integration and wage-competition, a decline in the capacity of the nation-state to steer economic progress, the ascendancy of fiscal austerity and monetarism over Keynesian/welfare state politics, the appearance of post-industrial production models, the proliferation of contingent employment relationships, the fragmentation of class-based identities and emergence of new social movements, and the significantly increased participation of women in paid work.These developments offer many appealing possibilities - the opportunity, for example, to contest the gender division of labour and re-think the boundaries between immigration and labour policy. But they also hold out quite threatening prospects - including increased unemployment and inequality and the decline of workers' organizations and social participation - in the context of proliferating constraints imposed by international financial pressures on enacting redistributive social and economic policies. New strategies must be developed to meet these challenges. These essays - which are the product of a transnational comparative dialogue among academics and practitioners in labour law and related legal fields, including social security, immigration, trade, and development - identify, analyze, and respond to some of the conceptual and policy challenges posed by globalization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Labour Law in Transition 1: Karl Klare: The Horizons of Transformative Labour and Employment Law 2: Massimo D'Antona: Labour Law at the Century's End: An Identity Crisis? Part II. Contested Categories: Work, Worker, and Employment 3: Joanne Conaghan: Women, Work, and Family: A British Revolution? 4: Paul Benjamin: Who Needs Labour Law? Defining the Scope of Labour Protection 5: Lucy Williams: Beyond Labour Law's Parochialism: A Re-envisioning of the Discourse of Distribution Part III. Globalization and Its Discontents 6: Kerry Rittich: Feminization and Contingency: Regulating the Stakes of Work for Women 7: Brian A. Langille: Seeking Post-Seattle Clarity - and Inspiration 8: Dennis M. Davis: Death of a Labour Lawyer? Part IV. Same as the Old Boss? The Firm, the Employment Contract, and the 'New' Economy<...
