Comparative Labor Law

Edited by Matthew W. Finkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US and Guy Mundlak, Tel Aviv University, Israel

• Contents:Introduction to the Comparative Labor Law HandbookGuy Mundlak and Matthew FinkinPART ICOMPARING LABOR LAW1. The Rich Panoply of Sources of Labor Law: National, Regional and InternationalMarilyn J. Pittard and Stuart Butterworth2. Comparative Labor and Employment Law in Developed Market Economies: Fostering Market Efficiencies or Repairing Market Failures?Silvia Bonfanti, Cynthia Estlund and Nuno Garoupa3. The Challenge to Comparative Labor Law in a Globalized EraKerry Rittich and Guy MundlakPART IITHEMATIC COMPARISONS4. The Subjects of Labor Law: “Employees” and Other WorkersGuy Davidov, Mark Freedland and Nicola Kountouris5. Who is an Employer?Luisa Corazza and Orsola Razzolini6. Employee Autonomy, Privacy, and Dignity Under Technological OversightMatthew W. Finkin, Rüdiger Krause and Hisashi Takeuchi-Okuno7. Legal Protection for Employee MobilityAlan Hyde and Emanuele Menegatti8. The Lasting Influence of Legal Origins: Workplace Discrimination, Social Inclusion and the Law in Canada, the United States and the European UnionKevin Banks, Roberta Nunin and Adriana Topo9. Job LossJoanna Howe, Esther Sanchez and Andrew Stewart10. Freedom of AssociationAlan Bogg and K.D. Ewing11. Employee Voice Outside Collective BargainingMonika Schlachter and Achim SeifertPART IIIREGIONAL COMPARISONS12. European Union Labour Law and the European Social Model: A Critical AppraisalFrank Hendrickx and Stefano Giubboni13. Labor Law in Transition: From a Centrally Planned to a Free Market Economy in Central and Eastern EuropeErika Kovács, Nikita Lyutov and Leszek Mitrus14. Building BRICS of Success?Sean Cooney, Darcy Du Toit, Roberto Fragale, Roger Ronnie and Kamala SankaranIndex

'A monumental work of comparative labor law by an impressive group of international academics! This book highlights regional and cross-regional developments of contemporary labor law, clarifies the major trends and issues of labor law in the dynamically changing world, and discusses the new forms and framework of labor law emerging across continents. It presents rich reflections on the methodology of comparative labor law and addresses the very fundamental issues of globalized market economies.'