Labour category: 1663 books
International Labour Law Handbook
from A to Z
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 16, 2017
This International Labour Law Handbook from A to Z aims to give a comprehensive overview of the development and current status of labour law and industrial relations issues, including globalization and international labour standards. In this Handbook there are cross-references to international labour...
Migrants at Work
Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
There is a highly significant and under-considered intersection and interaction between migration law and labour law. Labour lawyers have tended to regard migration law as generally speaking outside their purview, and migration lawyers have somewhat similarly tended to neglect labour law. The culmination...
The Labour Constitution
The Enduring Idea of Labour Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
By exploring different approaches to the study of labour law, this book re-evaluates how it is conceived, analysed, and criticized in current legislation and policy. In particular, it assesses whether so-called 'old ways' of thinking about the subject, such as the idea of the labour constitution,...
Issues in Law and Public Policy on Contract Labour in India
Comparative Insights from China
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
This book discusses the increasing use of contract labour in India that has accompanied attempts to liberalise the economy. After briefly examining Indian labour laws and public policy, it juxtaposes the country’s labour market practices with international labour standards. The questions that are...
The Challenge of Labour in China
Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
China’s economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in the export industries. In recent years, however, there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are bargained, fought over and determined in China, by...
Labour Law Reforms in India
All in the Name of Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Labour market flexibility is one of the most closely debated public policy issues in India. This book provides a theoretical framework to understand the subject, and empirically examines to what extent India’s ‘jobless growth’ may be attributed to labour laws. There is a pervasive view that...
Statutory Minimum Wage Controls
A Critical Review of their Effects on Labour Markets, Employment and Incomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Statutory Minimum Wage Controls: A Critical Review of their Effects on Labour Markets, Employment and Incomes
"The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this is a plain violation of this most sacred property.” (Adam...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.
Through a combination...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Recent years in Europe have been marked by efforts to introduce changes in labour law in order to boost employment, reduce labour costs and increase flexibility of national labour markets. The increased international competition has led to major labour law reforms in some European countries but the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This edited collection draws together papers delivered at a symposium on New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research held at the University of Cambridge in April 2014. It contains contributions from established and emerging experts across a range of disciplines (including employment relations,...
Labour market policies in the era of pervasive austerity
A European perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe. Looking at the big European picture, do we see a convergence or a divergence in labour...
Unfree Labour?
Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Despite the growing global consensus regarding the need to ensure minimal labour standards, such as adequate safety and health conditions, freedom of association, and the prohibition of child labour, millions of workers across the world continue to work in horrific conditions. Who should be held responsible,...
The Labour Party and Foreign Policy
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party’s thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party’s approach to the international stage.
The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only neglected in most histories of the party,...