Death of Labour Law? by Martin Vranken - ISBN: 9780522856309
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Questions the relevance of labour law in Australia and other Western industrialised societies in the twenty-first century. This title retraces the birth and subsequent growth of labour law and argues that it is essentially a mechanism for employee protection, not labour market regulation.

Death of Labour Law?

Comparative Perspectives

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    280 pages

  • Release Date

    15 February 2009

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Summary

Death of Labour Law? questions the on-going relevance of labour law in Australia and other Western industrialised societies in the twenty-first century. The tension between economic flexibility for business and social stability for workers is set against the backdrop of the Rudd government’s ‘Forward with Fairness’ reform agenda and similar proposals for change in the European Union.Martin Vranken retraces the birth and subsequent growth of labour law and argues that it is essentially a mecha…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522856309
ISBN-10:0522856306
Author:Martin Vranken
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:280
Release Date:15 February 2009
Weight:339g
Dimensions:209mm x 135mm x 15mm
About The Author

Martin Vranken

Martin Vranken is a Reader in Law at the University of Melbourne. He has also worked for the Institute for Labour Relations at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and at the Industrial Relations Centre at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His previous books include Federalism and Labour Law (co-edited with Othmar Vanachter), Employees and the Law- Australasian Experiments, and Fundamentals of European Civil Law and Dismissal and Redundancy Procedures (with Alexander Szakats and Margaret A. Mulgan).

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