Labor & Employment

The active pursuit of social and labour rights is seen as a crucial response to globalization. These essays, written by leading scholars from the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USA, question the effectiveness of the rhetoric of rights...

European Labour Law explores how individual European national legal systems, in symbiosis with the European Union, produce a transnational labour law system that is distinct and genuinely European in character. Professor Brian Bercusson describes the...

This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents, immigrants and other vulnerable groups often referred to...

Continued economic prosperity in China and its international competitive advantage have been due in large part to the labor of workers in China, who for many years toiled in underregulated workplaces. More recently, labor law reforms have been praised...

One of the enduring legacies of the United States Civil War is that democracy in the workforce is an essential part of societal democracy. But the past century has seen a marked decline in the number of unionized employees, a trend that has increased...

This book originates from the research project 'New discourses in labour law' held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal...

How are national and international labour laws responding to the challenge of globalization as it re-shapes the workplaces of the world? This collection of essays by leading legal scholars and lawyers from Europe and the Americas was first published in...

On March 8, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States decided a case, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., brought by thirteen African American employees who worked as common labourers and janitors at one of Duke Power's facilities. The decision, in plaintiffs'...

This book is driven by a quest to re-regulate work to reduce informality and inequality, and promote a living wage for more people across the world. It presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study in four countries of varying wealth and...

Working Time and Holidays: A Practical Legal Guide acts as a concise, affordable, and practical guide to the Working Time Regulations 1998. There were 55,712 claims registered in the Employment Tribunals as "Working Time" claims in 2008, and the area is...

The Blackstone's Guide Series delivers concise and accessible books covering the latest legislative changes and amendments. Published within weeks of the Act, they offer expert commentary by leading names on the effects, extent and scope of the...

This book investigates the extent to which the European Union intervenes, and should intervene, in domestic labour law. It examines the stated and potential rationales for EU intervention, and argues that there are considerable merits to be derived from...

In recent years, gender has emerged as an important focus of attention in discourse in and around labour law. Gender is gradually moving from the margin to the mainstream of labour law debate, particularly with the development of a 'family-friendly'...

This volume contains a collection of original papers by leading legal scholars and social scientists that develop new perspectives on anti-discrimination law, with an emphasis on employment discrimination. The articles were written for a conference held...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333243886Author Laurence LustgartenFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

Social Security Law is an up-to-date, critical, yet authoritative account of the British social security system and its legal framework. It sets out the principal features of the main social benefits, giving a detailed exposition of the legal basis of...

This updated edition offers a fresh approach to the law governing employment relations, emphasising the contemporary policy themes of social inclusion, competitiveness, and the rights of citizenship in the workplace. It acts as a succinct and accessible...

This work examines the topic of dispute resolution, specifically the multi-criteria approach that seeks to arrive at a conclusion that is mutually beneficial to both sides. Through the use of decision-aiding software, the multi-criteria approach can...

The active pursuit of social and labour rights is seen as a crucial response to globalization. These essays, written by leading scholars from the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USA, question the effectiveness of the rhetoric of rights...

This original book seeks to shape current trends toward employer self-regulation into a new paradigm of workplace governance in which workers participate. The decline of collective bargaining and the parallel rise of employment law have left workers with...

Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. This crisis has an obvious external dimension - labour law is attacked for impeding efficiency, flexibility, and development; vilified for reducing employment and for favouring...

Labour Relations: A Southern African perspective is the eight editions of a text first published in 1989 under the title Labour Relations in South Africa. At that time, it was the first comprehensive textbook of its kind and was hailed as having reached...

Overworked? Underpaid? Frustrated with your boss? This guide, based on the collective experience of organizers and workers in non-unionized workplaces, is a critical tool to help you and your coworkers organize for justice at work. Unite and Win covers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789292704018Author Asian Development BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Asian Development BankPublisher Asian Development BankWeight(grams) 363g

In the wake of the pandemic, many employers continue to allow their employees to work from home, but much of the workplace remains governed by strict structural norms such as shifts, schedules, attendance, and leave-of-absence policies that determine...

Policy discussions play an important role in labour law, and labour lawyers draw on a wide range of disciplines and approaches in order to construct their arguments. This overview of the basic principles of labour law and the related policy arguments...

This book originates from the research project 'New discourses in labour law' held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599326054Author Isaac HammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Advantage Media GroupPublisher Advantage Media GroupWeight(grams) 195g

The increasing internationalization of business leads to a cornucopia of differing cross-border exchanges in one's daily work. Participants and other beneficiaries of this internationalization include not only multi-national companies but also SMEs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789528018636Author Mikko HyttinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937299040Author Diane M PfadenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Datamotion Publishing LLCPublisher Datamotion Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789352065066Author Ram Niwas BairwaFormat PaperbackImprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 1080g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941760185Author Joanne Dekker EsqFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Parker Press, Inc.Publisher Parker Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981583198Author Diane M PfadenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Datamotion Publishing LLCPublisher Datamotion Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735855912Author Darlise HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Doc PublishingPublisher Doc PublishingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

If you're new to the safety field, or if you've just been given safety responsibilities, making sense of your compliance responsibilities can be overwhelming! This newly updated and easy-to-read guide is your key to understanding and complying with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989370127Author Tom SpiggleFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Morgan and DawsonPublisher Morgan and DawsonWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981508511Author Phillip B WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Labor Relations Institute, IncorporatedPublisher Labor Relations Institute,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991970704Author Leslie J SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Leslie J. Smith Professional CorporationPublisher Leslie J. Smith Professional...

This Research Handbook assembles the original work of leading legal and economic scholars, working in a variety of traditions and methodologies, on the economic analysis of labor and employment law. In addition to surveying the current state of the art...