The Rise and Development of Collective Labour Law
Published on 13. March 2000
Book
Hardback
458 pages
978-3-906760-36-0 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this book are written by recognised experts and provide a comparative overview of the development of labour law in different countries. The book aims to give a concise account of the history of labour law and goes on to provide a critical historiography for each country with supplementary essays on international dimensions. This collection will be of interest to historians, labour lawyers, industrial sociologists and labour economists.
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Persons
The Editors: Marcel van der Linden is Senior Research Fellow of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam; and Executive Editor of the International Review of Social History.
Richard Price is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He has written books and articles on British labour and social history.
Richard Price is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He has written books and articles on British labour and social history.
Content
Contents: Jeremy Adelman: Labour Law in Twentieth Century Argentina - Raymond Markey: The Development of Collective Labour Law in Australia, 1788-1914 - Michael M. Hall: Labor and the Law in Brazil - Dale Gibson: Collective Labour Law in Canada 1812-1982: The Branch Plant Has a Few Ideas of Its Own - Norbert Olszak: The Historical Development of Collective Labour Law in France - Anthony Woodiwiss: Colonialism and the Development of Labour Law in Hong Kong - Sheldon Garon: Collective Labor Law in Japan Since 1882 - Susanne Fransson: Freedom of Contract, Parity and Collective Regulation: Collective Labour Law in Sweden - G.S. Shieh: Cultivation, Control and Dissolution: The Historical Transformation of the Labour Union Act of Taiwan, 1911-1990 - Gerry R. Rubin: The Historical Development of Collective Labour Law: The United Kingdom - Katherine Van Wezel Stone: Labor and the American State: The Evolution of Labor Law in the United States - Anthony Woodiwiss: Globalization, Property Relations and the History of Labour Law: The Beginning of a Voyage in? - Bob Hepple: The Historical Development of Collective Labour Law: Comparative Reflections.