The Idea of Labour Law

Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come? THE IDEA OF LABOUR LAW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1. Labour Law After Labour 2. Factors Influencing the Making and Transformation of Labour Law in Europe 3. Re-Inventing Labour Law? 4. Hugo Sinzheimer and the Constitutional Function of Labour Law 5. Global Conceptualizations and Local Constructions on the Idea of Labour Law 6. The Idea of the Idea of Labour Law: A Parable NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF THE IDEA OF LABOUR LAW 7. Labour Law's Theory of Justice 8. Labour as a 'Fictive Commodity': Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law 9. Theories of Rights as Justifications for Labour Law 10. The Contribution of Labour Law to Economic and Human Development NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS AND LEGAL IDEAS: RETHINKING EXISTING STRUCTURES 11. Re-Matching Labour Laws with Their Purpose 12. The Legal Characterization of Personal Work Relations and the Idea of Labour Law 13. Ideas of Labour Law - Views From the South 14. Informal Employment and the Challenges for Labour Law 15. The Impossibility of Work Law 16. Procurement Law to Enforce Labour Standards 17. Labor Activism in Local Politics: From CBAs to 'CBAs' and Beyond NEW LABOUR LAW IDEAS: RETHINKING EXISTING BOUNDARIES 18. The Broad Idea of Labour Law: Industrial Policy, Labour Market Regulation, and Decent Work 19. The Third Function of Labor Law: Distributing Labor Market Opportunities Among Workers 20. Beyond Collective Bargaining: Modern Unions as Agents of Social Solidarity 21. From Conflict to Regulation: The Transformative Function of Labour Law NEW IDEAS OF LABOUR LAW FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 22. Out of the Shadows? The Non-Binding Multilateral Framework on Migration (2006) and Prospects for Using International Labour Regulation to Forge Global Labour Market Membership 23. Flexible Bureaucracies in Labor Market Regulation 24. Collective Exit Strategies: New Ideas in Transnational Labour Law 25. Emancipation in the Idea of Labour Law: Commoditization, Resistance and Distributive Justice beyond borders