Constructing Worlds of Labour

Ulrich Mückenberger is Research Professor at University of Bremen, Germany and the Centre for European Law and Politics. He is the Principal Investigator in the project “Worlds of Labour”, in the DFG-CRC 1342 “Global Social Policy Dynamics”. His research covers European and international labour law, transnational industrial relations, welfare state and time policy developments in a European and global perspective. Heiner Fechner is a Postdoctoral researcher in DFG-CRC 1342 "Global Social Policy Dynamics“, project "Worlds of Labour", University of Bremen, Germany. He is a legal scholar specialising in labour law, legal sociology and law & development. Irene Dingeldey is Professor of Political Science and director of  the Institute Labour and Economy at the University of Bremen, Germany. She is Principal Investigator in the project “Worlds of Labour”, DFG-CRC 1342 “Global Social Policy Dynamics”. Her research covers industrial relations, labour market and welfare state development in a European and global perspective.

• Chapter 1: Introduction:  Constructing Worlds of Labour in the Context of  Social Policy Research Introduction:  Constructing Worlds of Labour in the Context of  Social Policy Research.- Part 1: Legal Segmentation in Regulatory Social Policy: Concept, History, Measurement and Application.- Chapter 2: Legal Segmentation in the Global North and South:Concept, Historical Emergence and  Tentative Theoretical Explanations.- Chapter 3: Using Leximetrics for Coding Legal Segmentation in Employment Law:The Development and  Potential of the Worlds of Labour Dataset.- Chapter 4: Is the Standard Employment Relationship  Undergoing a Revival?  Evidence from the 2023 Update of the CBR Labour  Regulation Index.- Chapter 5: The Leximetric Methodology Applied to the  Analysis of Legal Segmentationin Labour Law:  A Critical Appraisal.- Part 2: Development and Dissemination of Both Social Protecting and Segmenting Functions of Labour Law.- Chapter 6: Legal Segmentation of Work in Latin America. Colonial Origins and Evolution of Segmentation, Precarisation, Protection and Universalisation.- Chapter 7: Genesis and Forms of Standard Employment Relationships in Three European Ex-Colonial Powers and their Former Colonial Territories.- Chapter 8: The Evolution of Standard and Non-Standard Employment Regulation around the World A Sequence Analysis of Regulation Trajectories over Four Decades.- Chapter 9: The Development of Coverage and Generosity of Employment Regulation around the Globe.- Part 3: Towards a Socio-Political Paradigm Shift?.- Chapter 10: Beyond National and Global Labour Policy:  The Future of Work and Employment  Governance.- Chapter 11: Reflections on the Future of Legal  Segmentation: Three Frontiers of Investigation.- Chapter 12: Conclusion and Outlook: Overcoming  Segmentation Within Regulative Social Policy on a Global Scale.