The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations

Mark Freedland is Professor of Employment Law in the University of Oxford where he engages in teaching research and writing in the fields of Labour or Employment Law and Public Law both in the Law Faculty and as a Fellow and Law Tutor of St John's College. A graduate of University College London, he has been teaching in Oxford since 1970. Nicola Kountouris is a Lecturer in Law at University College London. Prior to that he was a Lecturer at the University of Reading and a Postgraduate Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

• INTRODUCTION: EVOLUTION AND RE-FORMULATION IN THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF PERSONAL WORK RELATIONS ; PART I: THE LEGAL ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL WORK RELATIONS ; 1. The Legal Analysis of Personal Work Relations - Boundaries, Paradigms, and Legal Formats ; 2. A European Comparative Approach to the Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations ; PART II: THE PERSONAL WORK RELATION AS A CONTRACT ; 3. The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations as Contracts ; 4. The Formation and Structure of Contracts of Employment ; 5. The Content and Performance of Contracts of Employment ; 6. The Termination and Transformation of Contracts of Employment ; 7. Personal Work Contracts other than the Contract of Employment ; PART III: THE PERSONAL WORK RELATION AS A LEGAL NEXUS ; 8. Contract, Relation, and Nexis in the Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations ; 9. The Personal Work Profile and the Idea of Personality in Work ; PART IV: THE PERSONAL WORK PROFILE AND THE IDEA OF PERSONALITY IN WORK ; 10. The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations and the Role of EU Law ; CONCLUSION: THE PERSONAL WORK RELATION IN EUROPEAN LABOUR LAW - CHALLENGES AND AFFIRMATIONS