Beyond Employment

Alain Supiot received his State Doctorate in Law in 1979 (Bordeaux), and became Professor of Law in 1980, first at the University of Poitiers and then at the University of Nantes. His career has included many periods of research abroad including at the Institute of Industrial Relations, Berkeley in 1981; the European University Institute, Florence in 1989/90; and the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Studies), Berlin in 1997/8. He has written many books on labour and social security law including Critique du Droit du Travail (1994), and the collective work Le Travail en perspectives (1998). He is a member of the Scientific Council of the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), and chair of the National Council for the Development of the Human and Social Sciences.

• 1. Work and Private Power ; 2. Work and Membership of the Labour Force ; 3. Work and Time ; 4. Work and Collective Organization ; 5. Work and Public Authorities: The work of the state ; 6. Changes in Work, Women's Work, and the Future of Labour Law: The gender dimension ; 7. Labour and Law and Economic Performance ; 8. Summary

Supiot's basic theme - that European labour law must wake up to the transformation in work patterns wrought by rapid economic, social and technological change - leads him to a set of intriguing conclusions ... a useful contribution to the debate on how society should go about regulating work in the early 21st Century.