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Economic pressure and corporate policies, both transnational and domestic, have placed labor law under severe stress. National responses are so deeply embedded in institutions reflecting local traditions that meaningful comparison is daunting. This book assembles a team of experts from many countries, drawing on a rich variety of comparative methods to capture changes in different countries and regions, emerging trends and national divergences.



Economic pressure, as well as transnational and domestic corporate policies, has placed labor law under severe stress. National responses are so deeply embedded in institutions reflecting local traditions that meaningful comparison is daunting. This book assembles a team of experts from many countries that draw on a rich variety of comparative methods to capture changes and emerging trends across nations and regions.

The chapters in this Research Handbook mingle subjects of long-standing comparative concern with matters that have pressed to the fore in recent years. Subjects like "soft lawö and emerging geographic zones are placed in a new light and their burgeoning significance explored. Thematic and regional comparisons capture the challenges of a globally comparative perspective on labor law.

The fresh and thoughtful comparative analysis in this Handbook makes it a critical resource for scholars and students of labor law.



Contents:

Introduction to the Comparative Labor Law Handbook
Guy Mundlak and Matthew Finkin

PART I COMPARING LABOR LAW
1. The Rich Panoply of Sources of Labor Law: National, Regional and International
Marilyn J. Pittard and Stuart Butterworth

2. Comparative Labor and Employment Law in Developed Market Economies: Fostering Market Efficiencies or Repairing Market Failures?
Silvia Bonfanti, Cynthia Estlund and Nuno Garoupa

3. The Challenge to Comparative Labor Law in a Globalized Era
Kerry Rittich and Guy Mundlak

PART II THEMATIC COMPARISONS
4. The Subjects of Labor Law: "Employeesö and Other Workers
Guy Davidov, Mark Freedland and Nicola Kountouris

5. Who is an Employer?
Luisa Corazza and Orsola Razzolini

6. Employee Autonomy, Privacy, and Dignity Under Technological Oversight
Matthew W. Finkin, Rüdiger Krause and Hisashi Takeuchi-Okuno

7. Legal Protection for Employee Mobility
Alan Hyde and Emanuele Menegatti

8. The Lasting Influence of Legal Origins: Workplace Discrimination, Social Inclusion and the Law in Canada, the United States and the European Union
Kevin Banks, Roberta Nunin and Adriana Topo

9. Job Loss
Joanna Howe, Esther Sanchez and Andrew Stewart

10. Freedom of Association
Alan Bogg and K.D. Ewing

11. Employee Voice Outside Collective Bargaining
Monika Schlachter and Achim Seifert

PART III REGIONAL COMPARISONS
12. European Union Labour Law and the European Social Model: A Critical Appraisal
Frank Hendrickx and Stefano Giubboni

13. Labor Law in Transition: From a Centrally Planned to a Free Market Economy in Central and Eastern Europe
Erika Kovács, Nikita Lyutov and Leszek Mitrus

14. Building BRICS of Success?
Sean Cooney, Darcy Du Toit, Roberto Fragale, Roger Ronnie and Kamala Sankaran