The Idea of Labour Law

Guy Davidov is Elias Lieberman Chair in Labour Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied at Tel-Aviv University (LLB) and the University of Toronto (LLM, SJD) and has previously been a faculty member at the University of Haifa, before joining the Hebrew University in 2007. He served as Vice-Dean from 2009 to 2011 and is currently head of the Graduate Programs. He is co-editor of the Israeli journal Labour, Society and Law, and chairs the Steering Committee of the recently founded Labour Law Research Network. He has published widely on labour law issues, especially dealing with the normative justifications for different labour regulations.Brian Langille is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. A native of Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. from Acadia, his LL.B from Dalhousie Law School, and the B.C.L. from Oxford. He taught at Dalhousie Law School prior to joining the University of Toronto in 1983. His numerous publications are concerned with labour law and legal theory. Professor Langille has been appointed a Visiting Professor or Fellow at The International Institute for Labour Studies, the European University Institute, the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, Dalhousie Law School, University Pompeu Fabra, the Institute for Advanced Studies of Nantes, and the University of Melbourne Law School. He has also been a member of the executive of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security and he is an editor of the International Labour Law Reports.

• Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come? ; THE IDEA OF LABOUR LAW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT ; 1. Labour Law After Labour ; 2. Factors Influencing the Making and Transformation of Labour Law in Europe ; 3. Re-Inventing Labour Law? ; 4. Hugo Sinzheimer and the Constitutional Function of Labour Law ; 5. Global Conceptualizations and Local Constructions on the Idea of Labour Law ; 6. The Idea of the Idea of Labour Law: A Parable ; NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF THE IDEA OF LABOUR LAW ; 7. Labour Law's Theory of Justice ; 8. Labour as a 'Fictive Commodity': Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law ; 9. Theories of Rights as Justifications for Labour Law ; 10. The Contribution of Labour Law to Economic and Human Development ; NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS AND LEGAL IDEAS: RETHINKING EXISTING STRUCTURES ; 11. Re-Matching Labour Laws with Their Purpose ; 12. The Legal Characterization of Personal Work Relations and the Idea of Labour Law ; 13. Ideas of Labour Law - A View From the South ; 14. Informal Employment and the Challenges for Labour Law ; 15. The Impossibility of Work Law ; 16. Using Procurement Law to Enforce Labour Standards ; 17. Labor Activism in Local Politics: From CBAs to 'CBAs' ; NEW LABOUR LAW IDEAS: RETHINKING EXISTING BOUNDARIES ; 18. The Broad Idea of Labour Law: Industrial Policy, Labour Market Regulation, and Decent Work ; 19. The Third Function of Labor Law: Distributing Labor Market Opportunities Among Workers ; 20. Beyond Collective Bargaining: Modern Unions as Agents of Social Solidarity ; 21. From Conflict to Regulation: The Transformative Function of Labour Law ; NEW IDEAS OF LABOUR LAW FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ; 22. Out of the Shadows? The Non-Binding Multilateral Framework on Migration (2006) and Prospects for Using International Labour Regulation to Forge Global Labour Market Membership ; 23. Flexible Bureaucracies in Labor Market Regulation ; 24. Collective Exit Strategies: New Ideas in Transnational Labour Law ; 25. Emancipation in the Idea of Labour Law: Commoditization, Resistance and Distributive Justice beyond borders

This book, of twenty-five chapters by thirty authors, is packed with information, insight, argument, and angst. These chapters variously cry grief and despair, call for fundamental reformulation, suggest a less radical range for adaptation and growth, or express sobering cautions even as they echo the last suggestion.