Reinventing Labour Law
Author | : Rochelle Le Roux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Labor laws and legislation |
ISBN | : 9780702198649 |
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Author | : Rochelle Le Roux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Labor laws and legislation |
ISBN | : 9780702198649 |
Author | : Richard Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Labor laws and legislation |
ISBN | : |
Comprises 12 papers covering the parameters of labour law, research into labour law, and the teaching of labour law. Includes an essay on the internationalization of labour law.
Author | : University of Cape Town. Faculty of Law |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780702198632 |
Author | : United States. Department of Labor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Labor laws and legislation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Louise Munkholm |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1509926380 |
This monograph investigates current issues in labour law enforcement from a socio-legal perspective. It analyses how local Italian enforcement actors promote the protection of workers in Prato – a city that in recent decades has seen a significant influx of Chinese migrants who run small workshops as part of the local clothing industry. Many of the Chinese firms in Prato fail to live up to core labour standards, such as maximum working hours, health and safety at work and payment of social security contributions. The book analyses the strategies and practices employed by three local enforcement actors (labour inspectors, labour unionists and a new type of labour law consultant) in their efforts to assist Chinese firms in improving their level of labour law compliance. Combining documentary, interview and observational data, the book applies theories of legal culture and legal development to address the interaction between law and society. It focuses on the operational aspects of law by asking three interrelated research questions: How do local enforcement actors promote the protection of workers in Chinese firms in Prato? Which tools are employed, and which rationalities drive the initiatives? The book thereby sheds light upon processes of legal cultural adaptation, informing ongoing international and national debates about what can actually be done to combat contemporary gaps in the protection of workers.
Author | : David I. Levine |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
What is the future shape of the American workplace? This question is the focus of a national debate as the country strives to find a system that provides a good standard of living for workers while allowing U.S. businesses to succeed at home and compete abroad. In this book, David Levine uses case studies and extensive evidence to show that greater employee involvement in the workplace can significantly increase both productivity and worker satisfaction. Employee involvement has many labels, including high-performance workplaces, continuous improvement, or total quality management. The strongest underlying theme is that frontline employees who are actually performing the work will always have insights about how to improve their tasks. Employee involvement includes a range of policies that, at the minimal end, permit workers to suggest improvement, and at the substantive end, create an integrated strategy to give all employees the ability, motivation, and authority to constantly improve the organization's operations. Despite the evidence of its benefits, substantive employee involvement remains the exception in the U.S. work force. Levine explores the obstacles to its spread, which include legal barriers, capital markets that discourage investment in people, organizational inertia, and the costs of implementation. Levine concludes with specific public policy recommendations for increasing the extent of employee involvement, including changes in government regulation of capital and labor markets to encourage long-term investment and labor-management cooperation. He recommends macroeconomic policies to sustain high employment, less regulation for high-involvement workplaces, and training in schools and on the job to teach high-involvement practices. He also suggests new roles for unions and provides a checklist for employers to assess their progress in implementing employee involvement. David I. Levine was on the staff of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and an associate professor in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Selected as a Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics by the Firestone Library, Princeton University
Author | : Guy Davidov |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0191648078 |
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 already well placed employees over less fortunate ones; and discredited for failing to cover the most vulnerable workers and workers in the "informal sector". These are just some of the external challenges to labour law. There is also an internal challenge, as labour lawyers themselves increasingly question whether their discipline is conceptually coherent, relevant to the new empirical realities of the world of work, and normatively salient in the world as we now know it. This book responds to such fundamental challenges by asking the most fundamental questions: What is labour law for? How can it be justified? And what are the normative premises on which reforms should be based? There has been growing interest in such questions in recent years. In this volume the contributors seek to take this body of scholarship seriously and also to move it forward. Its aim is to provide, if not answers which satisfy everyone, intellectually nourishing food for thought for those interested in understanding, explaining and interpreting labour laws - whether they are scholars, practitioners, judges, policy-makers, or workers and employers.
Author | : John-Paul Alexandrowicz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Arbitration, Industrial |
ISBN | : 9781551726205 |
Author | : Richard Bales |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108428835 |
Over the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely work, editors Richard Bales and Charlotte Garden - with a roster of thirty-five leading labor scholars - analyze these trends and show how they are linked. Designed to appeal to those being introduced to the field as well as experts seeking new insights, this book demonstrates how federal labor law is failing today's workers and disempowering unions; how union jobs pay better than nonunion jobs and help to increase the wages of even nonunion workers; and how, when union jobs vanish, the wage premium also vanishes. At the same time, the book offers a range of solutions, from the radical, such as a complete overhaul of federal labor law, to the incremental, including reforms that could be undertaken by federal agencies on their own.
Author | : Nicole Busby |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1137432446 |
Labour law is in crisis. Global economic factors and the changing contours of work and workplace relations have led to a reorientation of the social, economic, political and cultural environment within which labour law has developed. This is not a jurisdictional problem but rather is deeply entrenched in transnational development. Solutions must recognise and mobilise the transformational shift that has taken place over recent decades. Law should be viewed as a force for and a facilitator of change, capable of expressing and determining social relations. The essays in this book explore the challenges posed by labour law's potential reinvention as a discipline fit for accommodating and investigating such change within a range of different but connected jurisdictional and regulatory concepts and paradigms.