Research Methods in Labour Law

Edited by Alysia Blackham and Sean Cooney, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents1 Introduction to Research Methods in Labour Law 1Alysia Blackham and Sean CooneyPART I THE RESEARCH METHODS CONTEXT2 The relevance and importance to labour law researchers of ontology,epistemology, methodology and methods 12Richard JohnstonePART II THEORY3 Doing feminist critique: methods of feminist labour law research 28Ania Zbyszewska4 Capability approaches 44Brian Langille5 Vulnerability theory 57Lisa Rodgers6 Reflexive regulation of labour law 70Ralf RogowskiPART III INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH7 Industrial relations 85Mia Rönnmar8 Economic and empirical methods in labour and employment law 100Joni Hersch9 Labour law and climate change 114Joo-Cheong Tham10 Labour law and time 136Emily Rose11 Anthropology and labour law 150Petra Mahy12 Historical methods 166Rebecca ZahnPART IV METHODSSECTION A METHOD AND LEGAL TRADITIONS13 Doctrinal method in labour law in common law systems: potential,problems, prospects 186Alan Bogg14 Socialist labour law 219Yan Tian 阎天 (translation by Sean Cooney)15 Labour law in a civil law country 234Ryoko Sakuraba16 Evolving themes and approaches in comparative labour law 255Ingrid Landau17 The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: a catalyst for internationallabour standards 271Mauro Pucheta and Renan Kalil18 Labour law and informality: researching the invisibles 285Olívia de Quintana Figueiredo PasqualetoSECTION B QUALITATIVE METHODS19 Ethnography 299Alvin Hoi-Chun Hung20 (Facilitated) conversations from the frontline: qualitative multilingualresearch with EU migrant workers 313Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello21 Participatory action research methods for labour law research and reform 331Shelley Marshall and Ema Moolchand22 Yarning about employment: Indigenous research methodologyapplication in the employment sector 349Nareen Young and Joshua Gilbert with Fiona Allison23 Utopia as a method for labour law research 365Miriam Kullmann and Andrea IossaSECTION C QUANTITATIVE METHODS24 Surveys and administrative data 382Andrea M Noack, Leah F Vosko, Eric Tucker and Rebecca Casey25 Mixed methods research 399Alysia BlackhamIndex 415

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