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103 results in Employment Law

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Sex, Gender Identity and the Law

Remote Work and Labor Institutions
  • Edited by Julia López López
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    February 2026
    Print publication:
    28 February 2026
  • This volume shows how remote work is regulated by a holistic set of arrangements that govern all forms of employment, weaving together labor institutions in complex ways that the book presents and explains. The scholarship assembled here examines the handling of remote work through institutional analysis cutting across national cases and focusing on both fundamental rights and regulatory challenges. The rights that are examined – by analyzing their nteraction with employer powers – include privacy, equality and non-discrimination as well as collective rights and the distribution of responsibilities in the workplace. The book shows how the location of work interacts with new technologies redefining the universe of labor relations and the institutional system governing employment. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Labour Law
  • 3rd edition
  • Hugh Collins, K. D. Ewing, Aileen McColgan
  • Published online:
    02 October 2025
    Print publication:
    20 November 2025
  • Labour Law, now in its third edition, is a well established text which offers a comprehensive and critical account of the subject by a team of leading labour lawyers. It examines both collective labour relations and individual employment rights, including equality law, and does so while having full regard to the international labour standards as well as the implications of Brexit. Case studies and reports from government and other public agencies illuminate the text to show how the law works in practice, ensuring that students acquire not only a sophisticated knowledge of the law but also an appreciation of its purpose and the complexity of the issues which it addresses.

The War on Tenure
  • Deepa Das Acevedo
  • Published online:
    30 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025
  • As academia increasingly comes under attack in the United States, The War on Tenure steps in to demystify what professors do and to explain the importance of tenure for their work. Deepa Das Acevedo takes readers on a backstage tour of tenure-stream academia to reveal hidden dynamics and obstacles. She challenges the common belief that tenure is only important for the protection of academic freedom. Instead, she argues that the security and autonomy provided by tenure are also essential to the performance of work that students, administrators, parents, politicians, and taxpayers value. Going further, Das Acevedo shows that tenure exists on a spectrum of comparable employment contracts, and she debunks the notion that tenure warps the incentives of professors. Ultimately, The War on Tenure demonstrates that the job security tenure provides is not nearly as unusual, undesirable, or unwarranted as critics claim.

Work and Industrial Relations Policy in Australia

Employment and Career Motivation in the Arab Gulf States
  • The Rentier Mentality Revisited
  • Edited by Annika Kropf, Mohamed Ramady
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    30 August 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2015
  • The notion of 'rentier mentality' has haunted the literature on the Gulf States for almost 40 years now. However, few studies have actually provided insight into how the nationals themselves perceive their career motivators, employability and productivity. The eleven studies of this book present both empirical findings and case studies that reveal what nationals expect from their workplace and what hinders them from a personal, meaningful contribution. While it seems that an initially high work motivation is often annihilated by structural impediments such as a strong hierarchy or widespread wasta, it also seems that many nationals fail to understand the urgent requirements of the GCC labour markets.

The Future of Labour Market Reform in the Gulf Region
  • Towards a Multi-Disciplinary, Evidence-Based and Practical Understanding
  • Edited by David B. Jones, Sofiane Sahraoui
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    29 August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2017
  • As governments across the GCC strive to implement labour policies which accelerate the transition to 'post oil' knowledge-based economies, this volume provides insights into the size of this challenge, along with analysis of progress to date.

    With a comprehensive coverage of the region (each GCC member is included in some respect), this new work provides unique insights into how the domestic policy agenda is shifting the region's moribund labour markets inexorably towards greater productivity, positivity, sustainability and efficiency.

Cast in a Racial Mould
  • Labour Process and Trade Unionism in the Foundries
  • Edward Webster, Michael Burawoy
  • Published by:
    Wits University Press
    Published online:
    03 July 2025
    Print publication:
    01 May 2025
  • An examination of labour resistance in South Africa's metal industry, revealing how racial dynamics and worker organization transformed industrial relations between 1976-1989.

    First published by Ravan Press in 1985, Cast in a Racial Mould was a pioneering book. It is now republished by Wits University Press with a new foreword by Michael Burawoy and with support from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

    Entering what Marx called 'the hidden abode' of capitalism 'the labour process' this book analyzes the nature of work and worker resistance in the metal industry which lies at the core of South Africa's manufacturing industry.

    In an introductory chapter Webster points out that most studies of the labour process have neglected worker resistance. He challenges Braverman's depiction of mass production as a juggernaut which inherently imposes progressively tighter controls on workers, and points to two forms of worker resistance which have been important in the history of South Africa's foundries.

The Value of Industrial Relations
  • Contemporary Work and Employment in Britain
  • Edited by Andy Hodder, Stephen Mustchin
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2025
    Print publication:
    15 January 2024
  • Published in collaboration with The British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA), this book critically reviews the future of Industrial Relations (IR) in a changing work landscape and traces its historical evolution. Essential for academics, students and trade unions, it explores IR's significant changes over the past decade and its ongoing influence on our lives.

The Politics of Migrant Labour
  • Exit, Voice, and Social Reproduction
  • Gabriella Alberti, Devi Sacchetto
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2025
    Print publication:
    22 January 2024
  • At a time when worker shortages have emerged as a global challenge, this highly original book bridges migration and labour studies to examine worker mobility and its management. This will be a valuable resource for both scholars and practitioners.

Exiting the Factory
  • Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector
  • Alexander Gallas
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2025
    Print publication:
    01 July 2024
  • Drawing on case studies from Germany, Britain and Spain, this book offers a novel assessment of post-industrial action. Gallas explores key issues around union activities, class relations and struggles around unwaged work and brings class theory back to labour studies with a class-sensitive analysis of capitalism.

Crises at Work
  • Economy, Climate and Pandemic
  • Steve Williams, Mark Erickson
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    27 December 2024
    Print publication:
    06 September 2024
  • It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis: the economy, the climate, the pandemic. This book asks how these larger societal issues lead to a crisis with work, making it ever more precarious, unequal and intense. Experts diagnose the nature of the problem and offer a programme for transcending above the crises.

Exiting the Factory
  • Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector
  • Alexander Gallas
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    27 December 2024
    Print publication:
    01 July 2024
  • Drawing on case studies from Germany, Britain and Spain, this book offers a novel assessment of labour struggles and class formation. Gallas explores key issues around class relations, struggles around waged and unwaged work and labour movements in contemporary capitalism to bring class theory back to labour studies.

Insurgent Planning Practice
  • Edited by Roberto Rocco, Gabriel Silvestre
  • Published by:
    Agenda Publishing
    Published online:
    19 December 2024
    Print publication:
    23 April 2024
  • This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It explores how planners can challenge technocratic planning by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and the right to the city into their daily practices. Each chapter delves into those daily practices to answer: What does insurgent planning practice look like in practice? How are radical planners coping with traditional, technocratic planning as practised in most places around the world? And what do they do to advance an agenda of democratisation and the right to the city, counteracting neoliberal forms of governance?

    Chapters draw on conversations with planners in several cities around the world, cataloguing insurgent experiences that challenge the status quo of contemporary market-based, exclusionary city-making. Throughout, cross-cutting issues such as gender, race and class are explored to consider ways in which insurgent planners bring diversity into planning.

Job Insecurity and Life Courses
  • Sonia Bertolini, Valentina Goglio, Dirk Hofäcker
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    17 December 2024
    Print publication:
    31 January 2024
  • Drawing from interviews and survey data across the EU and the UK, this in-depth study explores how worker instability is perceived and experienced, and how this 'perception' in turn affects individuals' economic and social situation. Using intersectional analysis, the authors identify groups who are more prone to labour market risks.

Digital, Class, Work

Labour Justice
  • A Constitutional Evaluation of Labour Law
  • Supriya Routh
  • Published online:
    30 April 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024
  • This book argues that the imagination of the worker-citizen, inherent in citizens' constitutional duty to work, is the very foundation of constitutional citizenship and its social justice agenda. The design of social justice in the constitution takes labour as its core ideological and political commitment, seeking to treat workers fairly for their social contribution through work. Employing this constitutional design, this book evaluates the recently repealed labour law against the constitutional metric of social justice. Drawing on the components of social justice, the book evaluates the new labour law in its capacity to promote market-based distribution, respecting basic individual liberties; the complementary redistribution of public goods, upholding the principle of solidarity; and worker participation in decisions about the operation of the market and the state. In offering such evaluation, the book conceives of work in its wider social relationship in contrast to its narrower private exchange rationale.

Alienation and Wellbeing
  • Chris Yuill
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    27 March 2024
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023
  • This book offers insights into the argument that capitalist society damages human health and well-being. Drawing on and bringing Marx's theory of alienation forward to the present day, it uniquely links it to well-being.

These Potatoes Look Like Humans
  • The Contested Future of Land, Home and Death in South Africa
  • uMbuso weNkosi
  • Published by:
    Wits University Press
    Published online:
    01 March 2024
    Print publication:
    01 September 2023
  • These Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present. In this ground-breaking book, Mbuso Nkosi criticises the historical framing of this debate within narrow materialist and legalistic arguments. His assertion is that, for most Black South Africans, the meaning of land cannot be separated from one's spiritual and ancestral connection to it, and this results in him seeing the dispossession of land in South Africa with a perspective not yet explored.

    Nkosi takes as his starting point the historic 1959 potato boycott in South Africa, which came about as a result of startling rumours that potatoes dug out of the soil from the farms in the Bethal district of Mpumalanga were in fact human heads. Journalists such as Ruth First and Henry Nxumalo went to Bethal to uncover these stories and revealed horrific accounts of abuse and routine killings of farmworkers by white Afrikaners. The workers were disenfranchised Black people who were forced to work on these farms for alleged 'crimes' against National Party state laws, such as the failure to carry passbooks.

    In reading this violence from the perspectives of both the Black worker and the white farmer, Nkosi deploys the device of the eye to look at his research subjects and make sense of how the past informs the present.

Labour Disrupted
  • Reflections on the Future of Work in South Africa
  • Edited by Malehoko Tshoaedi, Christine Bischoff, Andries Bezuidenhout
  • Published by:
    Wits University Press
    Published online:
    01 March 2024
    Print publication:
    01 October 2023
  • Published in the 50th anniversary year of the 1973 Durban strikes Labour Disrupted honours this milestone by reflecting on the past and the future of labour, primarily in South Africa but also globally. It focuses on how South Africa's lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic further exposed key contradictions and challenges that labour movements face.

    The contributions include a diverse range of topics by those actively engaged in the labour movement, who tackle a number of thorny issues: from redefining democracy in South Africa, to experiences of inclusiveness (or lack thereof) in workplace environments by women, young people, migrant workers, LGBTI people and people living with disabilities. They address contemporary issues related to the use of technology and the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the youth and the working class, and the challenge of skills development and restructuring in the workplace.

    Labour Disrupted shows new forms of organising and alliances that labour movements are involved in to address issues of social justice in education, health and community solidarity.

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