Perspectives on labour law / A.C.L. Davies.

By:

Davies, A. C. L. (Anne C. L.) [author.]

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Cambridge eBooks

Series: Law in contextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (xlii, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780511626968 (ebook)

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:

344.4101 22

LOC classification:

KD3009 .D375 2009

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Contents:

A brief history of labour law -- Economics perspectives on labour law -- Human rights perspectives on labour law -- Mode of regulation -- Who is protected by employment law -- Working time -- Discrimination -- Wages -- Dismissal -- Collective representation -- Trade union membership -- Industrial action -- What next?

Summary: 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.

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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.