Labour Employment category: 1020 books
Life after Lisbon
Europe’s Challenges to Promote Labour Force Participation and Reduce Income Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The economic crisis of 2008 has undone much of the progress on improving employment and growth in Europe. The review concludes that policy makers should focus on enabling social policy that allows individuals to achieve their productive potential.
Struck Out
Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can be Done
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation. In Struck Out, barrister David Renton gives a practical and critical guide to the system. In doing so he punctures...
The Common Law Employment Relationship
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The contract of employment provides in many jurisdictions the legal foundation for the employment of workers. This book examines how the development of the common law under the influence of contemporary social and economic pressures has caused this contract to evolve.
by Samantha Velluti
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
In recent years new or experimental approaches to governance in the EU, namely the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), have attracted great interest and controversy. This book examines the European Employment Strategy (EES) and its implementation through the OMC, exploring the promises and limitations...
East Asian Labor and Employment Law
International and Comparative Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
This book deals with international labor and employment law in the East Asia Region (EA), particularly dealing with China, South Korea and Japan. It explores and explains the effects of globalization and discusses the role played by international labor law as it affects lawyers, business, labor, labor...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
This report looks at a range of local employment and economic development issues in Saskatchewan and the Yukon, Canada, with a focus on indigenous peoples. The report provides a comparative framework to understand the role of the local level in contributing to more and better quality jobs, and practical...
by Simon Honeyball
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on employment law, primarily designed to allow students to ‘get under the skin’ of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills. Each chapter is structured around key questions and...
The Right to Privacy in Employment
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the term 'privacy' gained new prominence around the world, but in the legal arena it is still a concept in 'disarray'. Enclosing it within legal frameworks seems to be a particularly difficult task in the employment context, where encroachments upon privacy...
Jobs Rules in Italy
Labour law and industrial relations
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Il volume “JOB RULES IN ITALY” alla sua prima edizione, interamente scritto in lingua inglese, si presenta come una guida operativa diretta a fare conoscere, in modo rapido e completo, ai professionisti di natura prevelentemente internazionale, il funzionamento del sistema normativo-istituzionale...
The Making of an African Working Class
Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker...
Smart Public Procurement and Labour Standards
Pushing the Discussion after RegioPost
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Smart procurement aims to leverage public buying power in pursuit of social, environmental and innovation goals. Socially-orientated smart procurement has been a controversial issue under EU law. The extent to which the Court of Justice (ECJ) has supported or rather constrained its development has...
Property, Labour and Legal Regulation
Dignity or Dependence?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In this revealing comparative study, Mark Findlay examines the problematic nexus between undervalued labour and vulnerable migration status in dis-embedded markets. It highlights the frustrations raised by timeless regulatory failure and the chronic complicity of private property arrangements in delivering...
Intelligent Control
Developments in Public Order Policing in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Massive public protests have had a prominent presence at the turn of the millennium, with many thousands of protestors controlled by small, yet, increasingly specialized police forces. Investigating the ways in which police practices have evolved in relation to labour strikes and protests, Intelligent...
The Future Regulation of Work
New Concepts, New Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Labour law is in crisis. Global economic factors and the changing contours of work and workplace relations have led to a reorientation of the social, economic, political and cultural environment within which labour law has developed. This is not a jurisdictional problem but rather is deeply entrenched...