Research Catalog

Title

Towards a flexible labour market : labour legislation and regulation since the 1990s / Paul Davies and Mark Freedland.

Author

Davies, P. L. (Paul Lyndon)

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Freedland, M. R. (Mark Robert)

Description

xxv, 272 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Taking as its starting point the authors' earlier work on Labour Legislation and Public Policy, this book provides a detailed account and critical analysis of British labor legislation and labor market regulation since the early 1990s. Referring back to the earlier history, and filling in the gaps in the early and mid-1990s, the work concentrates mainly on the legislation and policy measures in the employment sphere of the New Labour governments which have been in power since 1997, placing those developments in the context of the relevant aspects of European Community law. The work argues for an understanding of this body of legislation and regulatory activity as being directed towards the realization of a flexible labor market, and shows how this objective has been pursued in three intersecting areas, those of regulating personal or individual employment relations, regulating collective representation, and promoting work. It explores the methods of regulation which have been used, developing a taxonomy of regulation and a notion of 'light regulation' to characterize some recent legislative interventions. It considers how far the administration of Prime Minister Tony Blair has fulfilled its promises or claims of 'fairness at work, ' 'welfare to work, ' and 'success at work, ' and will be of interest to academics studying British and European labor or employment law, employee relations or human resource management, labor market economics, and contemporary politics."

Series Statement

Oxford monographs on labour law

Uniform Title

Oxford monographs on labour law.

Subject

• Labor laws and legislation > Great Britain > History
• Labor laws and legislation
• Arbeitsmarkt
• Arbeitsrecht
• Regulierung
• labour flexibility
• labour market
• labour legislation
• Community law
• trend
• political aspect
• labour standards
• workers rights
• working conditions
• labour relations
• freedom of association
• trade union recognition
• workers participation
• works council
• work incentive
• minimum wage
• vocational training
• work life balance
• flexibilité du travail
• marché du travail
• législation du travail
• droit communautaire
• tendance
• aspect politique
• normes du travail
• droits des travailleurs
• conditions de travail
• relations de travail
• liberté syndicale
• reconnaissance syndicale
• participation des travailleurs
• comité d'entreprise
• incitation au travail
• salaire minimum
• formation professionnelle
• conciliation travail-vie personnelle
• flexibilidad del trabajo
• mercado de trabajo
• legislación del trabajo
• derecho comunitario
• tendencia
• aspecto político
• normas del trabajo
• derechos de los trabajadores
• condiciones de trabajo
• relaciones laborales
• libertad sindical
• reconocimiento sindical
• participación de los trabajadores
• comité de empresa
• incentivo al trabajo
• salario mínimo
• formación profesional
• equilibrio trabajo-vida
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
• Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

• History
• comment.
• commentaire.
• comentario.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Personal work relations and managerial adaptability -- Collective labour law -- Promoting work -- A new way found?

ISBN

• 9780199217878
• 0199217874
• 9780199217885
• 0199217882
• 0199217884 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2007003840

OCLC

• ocm80917954
• 80917954
• SCSB-8873632

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library