Labour Law in an Era of Globalization
Transformative Practices and Possibilities
Published on 21. March 2002
Book
Hardback
578 pages
978-0-19-924247-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
Labour Law in an Era of Globalization presents an incredibly diverse range of arguments regarding the future of the law of work. All these are grounded in the practices of many jurisdictions around the world and the contributors individually imagine a wide range of possibilities for the future development of the law. It is a collection which should be read by everyone who has an interest in the promotion of justice in work relations and the strength of its content has the capacity not only to contribute to but to be highly influential in those political contests through which the law and the world of work is created. * Adelaide Law Review * ... provocative, challenging and always stimulating. As it gathers together some of the very best labour lawyers in the world, the quality of the scholarship and writing is, unsurprisingly, of the highest standard across all contributions. * Adelaide Law Review * ... insights into the impacts of globalisation on law and work in contexts as diverse as Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Jordan, Israel and Silicon Valley in the USA. * Adelaide Law Review * [a] valuable book which is worthy of a place on any labour lawyers bookshelf. * Modern Law Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
1027 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-924247-4 (9780199242474)
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Joanne Conaghan | Richard Michael Fischl | Karl Klare
Labour Law in an Era of Globalization
Transformative Practices and Possibilities
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01/2004
Oxford University Press
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Persons
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.
Content
PART I. LABOUR LAW IN TRANSITION ; 1. The Horizons of Transformative Labour and Employment Law ; 2. Labour Law at the Century's End: An Identity Crisis? ; PART II. CONTESTED CATEGORIES: WORK, WORKER, AND EMPLOYMENT ; 3. Women, Work, and Family: A British Revolution? ; 4. Who Needs Labour Law? Defining the Scope of Labour Protection ; 5. Beyond Labour Law's Parochialism: A Re-envisioning of the Discourse of Distribution ; PART III. GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS ; 6. Feminization and Contingency: Regulating the Stakes of Work for Women ; 7. Seeking Post-Seattle Clarity - and Inspiration ; 8. Death of a Labour Lawyer? ; PART IV. SAME AS THE OLD BOSS? THE FIRM, THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, AND THE 'NEW' ECONOMY ; 9. The Many Futures of the Contract of Employment ; 10. From Amelioration to Transformation: Capitalism, the Market, and Corporate Reform ; 11. Death and Suicide from Overwork: The Japanese Workplace and Labour Law ; 12. A Closer Look at the Emerging Employment Law of Silicon Valley's High-Velocity Labour Market ; 13. 'A Domain into which the King's writ does not seek to run': Workplace Justice in the Shadow of Employment-at-Will ; PART V. BORDER/STATES: IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, AND COMMUNITY ; 14. The Limits of Labour Law in a Fungible Community ; 15. Immigration Policies in Southern Europe: More State, Less Market? ; 16. The Imagined European Community: Are Housewives European Citizens? ; 17. Critical Reflections on 'Citizenship' as a Progressive Aspiration ; PART VI. LABOUR SOLIDARITY IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES ; 18. The Decline of Union Power - Structural Inevitability or Policy Choice? ; 19. The Voyage of the Neptune Jade: Transnational Labour Solidarity and the Obstacles of Domestic Law ; 20. Mexican Trade Unionism in a Time of Transition ; 21. A New Course for Labour Unions: Identity-based Organizing as a Response to Globalization ; 22. Difference and Solidarity: Unions in a Post-Modern Age ; PART VII. LAYING DOWN THE LAW: STRATEGIES AND FRONTIERS ; 23. Is There a Third Way in Labour Law? ; 24. Private Ordering and Workers' Rights in the Global Economy: Corporate Codes of Conduct as a Regime of Labour Market Regulation ; 25. Emancipation through Law or the Emasculation of Law? The Nation-State, the EU, and Gender Equality at Work ; 26. Social Rights, Social Citizenship, and Transformative Constitutionalism: A Comparative Assessment