This volume examines different approaches to the study of labour law, comparing traditional with more market-focussed approaches. It argues that the idea of the labour constitution continues to offer a useful framework for scholarly analysis, emphasising the critical nature of the link between democracy and the protection of workers' interests.
"This book combines legal and political perspectives to provide a unique assessment of the 'New Labour Constitution' 20 years on. The New Labour government had a defining influence on the development of the modern UK constitution.
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?
This book examines the Labour Party's approach to constitutional reforms in historical context, and how these have been pursued more to 'modernize' political institutions, rather that radically transform them. Dorey...
An account of Labour's constitutional reform agenda and the thinking a nd debates that surround them. The text covers constitutional changes in 1999 or soon after to be implemented by...
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This book, the first-ever to consider the sources of labour law from a comparative perspective, details the ways in which the traditional hierarchy of sources has been altered, presenting an international view on major cross-cutting issues ...
"First [originally] published in Great Britain in 2007 by Politico's Publishing ..."--Title page verso.