Labor & Employment

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773634869Author Stephanie RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

China's labor landscape is changing, and it is transforming the global economy in ways that we cannot afford to ignore. Once-silent workers have found their voice, organizing momentous protests, such as the 2010 Honda strikes, and demanding a better deal...

Starting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially...

Migrant workers around the world are subject to exploitative labor practices that give employers extraordinary bargaining power. This book brings together researchers, practitioners, and advocates who explore the many ways that contracted migrant workers...

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...

There are many new realities confronting labor in the United States. Technology is redefining traditional employment, and globalization continues moving manufacturing as well as service jobs to lower-cost jurisdictions. This timely sixth edition...

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...

Theories of enterprise liability have, historically, had a significant influence on the development of various aspects of the law of torts. Enterprise liability has impacted upon both statutory and common law rules. Prime examples would include laws on...

Precarious work is a current concern throughout Europe as a result of the proliferation of new types of employment related to the gig economy. This timely book, positioned at the intersection between European and national labour law, provides a...

How would feminist perspectives and analytical methods change the interpretation of employment discrimination law? Would the conscious use of feminist perspectives make a difference? This volume shows the difference feminist analysis can make to the...

The recent pandemic has clarified the overwhelming connection between the workplace and technology. With thousands of employees suddenly forced to work at home, a large segment of the workforce quickly received crash courses in videoconferencing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922464125Author Rachel DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

This collection addresses the potential of the European Social Charter to promote and safeguard social rights in Europe. Drawing on the expertise of the ETUI Transnational Trade Union Rights expert network from across Europe, it provides a comprehensive...

Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines. In this book, Julius G. Getman argues that while the role of the Supreme Court has become...

The ongoing austerity crisis is being felt in all sectors of EU law, but has had a particularly severe impact on labour law. Silvana Sciarra, a leading judge and scholar of EU employment law, considers how solidarity regimes have been shaken by the...

Many governments, large institutions, and collective actors rely on the principle of solidarity to embed social policies on firm normative and legal grounds. In this original volume, a multidisciplinary roster of scholars come together to examine the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853411588Author Peter MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Packard Publishing LtdPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams)...

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...

This analytical book examines how the common law of the employment contract is likely to evolve. Tracing the radical evolution of this area over the last 40 years, it explores how many of the changes in common law have been triggered by the judicial...

Despite the growing global consensus regarding the need to ensure minimal labour standards, such as adequate safety and health conditions, freedom of association, and the prohibition of child labour, millions of workers across the world continue to work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783734740060Author Ilona ZenkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 163g

The book's breadth and grounding in labor law make it most accessible and useful to a professional audience, but even nonspecialists and lay readers will appreciate Blackett's insights about law and domestic work and provocative issues such as social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403546605Author Jean-Michel ServaisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams)...

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Employment Law is all about, Beginning Employment Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running. Starting with the basics and an...

This book challenges the existing focus in EU citizenship scholarship which overlooks the limitations of free movement for atypical workers.

Drawing on interdisciplinary literature and employing doctrinal, theoretical, and empirical legal research methods, Workplace Investigations presents the first book-length critical analysis of the legal regulation of workplace investigations in Australia...

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Explores the successes and challenges of the enforcement of employment rights, draws on parallels with family law dispute resolution, and establishes a blueprint for the future of employment dispute resolution.

Do women have equal chances in the judiciary? Although women have made their way into law faculties, in many countries of the world they still face drawbacks in judicial careers. This book delves into the different aspects of women at work in the...

This open access book speaks to the potential of a reimagined and revitalised right to strike. This right, as it has been conceptualised and regulated in the 20th century, remains insufficient to guarantee the strike's collective potential in the 21st,...

Originally published in 1985 Gender, Sex and the Law explores the way in which the law, at its various levels of jurisdiction, justifies its discrimination against women in terms of the physiological differences between the sexes. The book examines the...

This book examines the relationship between the law and collective bargaining in the modern world of work. It brings together theoretical, normative and practical perspectives from around the world to rethink the nexus between the two sources of work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918091007Author Daniel BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint HR Inner CirclePublisher HR Inner Circle

This book provides a cross-cultural analysis of how legislatures, judiciaries, NGOs, and corporations worldwide address workplace sexual harassment. Informed by the ongoing cultural relativism v. universalism debate, Cher Weixia Chen draws upon four...

The field of employment law used to be called "master-servant law." Even if this term has fallen out of favor, a central truth has not changed: modern employment law still draws on centuries-old ideas about the rights and obligations of workers. In The...

This book brings together leading scholars from private law and employment law to reflect upon private law doctrines as they relate to the employment contract.Developing an interdisciplinary dialogue, these contributions explore the regulatory functions...

This book gives new insights into employment law by analysing a neglected topic: remedies for breaches of employment rights. It explores remedies in the wider context of compliance with, and enforcement of, employment law through criminal law and other...

This book provides clear and concise explanations to over 200 questions on China's current employment laws. It helps readers answer the question: "what are my rights and what should I do?" in given practical situations.Adopting a question-and-answer...

This book studies labour institutions from an economic perspective to justify their existence and the advantages that they bring to innovation, efficiency, productivity, and economic growth.The philosophical foundations of labour law rely on the...