Labour Law in an Era of GlobalizationTransformative Practices and Possibilities

Abstract

PART I. LABOUR LAW IN TRANSITION 1. The Horizons of Transformative Labour and Employment Law 2. Labour Law at the Century's End: An Identity Crisis? PART II. CONTESTED CATEGORIES: WORK, WORKER, AND EMPLOYMENT 3. Women, Work, and Family: A British Revolution? 4. Who Needs Labour Law? Defining the Scope of Labour Protection 5. Beyond Labour Law's Parochialism: A Re-envisioning of the Discourse of Distribution PART III. GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 6. Feminization and Contingency: Regulating the Stakes of Work for Women 7. Seeking Post-Seattle Clarity - and Inspiration 8. Death of a Labour Lawyer? PART IV. SAME AS THE OLD BOSS? THE FIRM, THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, AND THE 'NEW' ECONOMY 9. The Many Futures of the Contract of Employment 10. From Amelioration to Transformation: Capitalism, the Market, and Corporate Reform 11. Death and Suicide from Overwork: The Japanese Workplace and Labour Law 12. A Closer Look at the Emerging Employment Law of Silicon Valley's High-Velocity Labour Market 13. 'A Domain into which the King's writ does not seek to run': Workplace Justice in the Shadow of Employment-at-Will PART V. BORDER/STATES: IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, AND COMMUNITY 14. The Limits of Labour Law in a Fungible Community 15. Immigration Policies in Southern Europe: More State, Less Market? 16. The Imagined European Community: Are Housewives European Citizens? 17. Critical Reflections on 'Citizenship' as a Progressive Aspiration PART VI. LABOUR SOLIDARITY IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES 18. The Decline of Union Power - Structural Inevitability or Policy Choice? 19. The Voyage of the Neptune Jade: Transnational Labour Solidarity and the Obstacles of Domestic Law 20. Mexican Trade Unionism in a Time of Transition 21. A New Course for Labour Unions: Identity-based Organizing as a Response to Globalization 22. Difference and Solidarity: Unions in a Postmodern Age PART VII. LAYING DOWN THE LAW: STRATEGIES AND FRONTIERS 23. Is There a Third Way in Labour Law? 24. Private Ordering and Workers' Rights in the Global Economy: Corporate Codes of Conduct as a Regime of Labour Market Regulation 25. Emancipation through Law or the Emasculation of Law? The Nation-State, the EU, and Gender Equality at Work 26. Social Rights, Social Citizenship, and Transformative Constitutionalism: A Comparative Assessment Index