The Future Regulation of Work: New Concepts, New Paradigms (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies)

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.

Douglas Brodie is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde, UK

Nicole Busby is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Strathclyde, UK

Rebecca Zahn is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde, UK