Employment & Labour Law

Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous...

In a contemporary labour market that includes growing levels of precarious employment, the regulation of minimum employment standards is intricatel...

People with disabilities in Canada inhabit a system of deep structural, economic, social, political, legal, and cultural inequality – a regime of d...

Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and lon...

Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and lon...

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing s...

Where did affirmative action in employment come from? The conventional wisdom is that it was instituted during the Johnson and Nixon years through ...

This book charts the path to revitalisation for trade unions in Australia, the USA, the UK, and Italy. It examines the examples of innovation and d...

From the larger field of women and employment law, Maschke has carved out a study that focuses exclusively on the impact Title VII of the 1964 Civi...

A critique of 30 years of antidiscrimination law in the United States, this book explains why equal opportunity and affirmative action policies hav...

What role has litigation played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men? This book explains how wage discrimination battles have raised...

This is a key textbook for postgraduate students taking a module in employment relations on both CIPD and non-CIPD accredited master's courses Ma...

Laboring for Justice highlights the experiences of day laborers and advocates in the struggle against wage theft in Denver, Colorado. Drawing on m...

Minnesota is one of only twelve states that does not allow the death penalty, but that was not always the case. In fact, until 1911 executions in t...

In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' co...

Guardian's Best Non-Fiction, 2019The Tablet's Highlights of 2019Personality tests. Team-building exercises. Forced Fun. Desktop surveillance. Open-...

The nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed t...

The central focus of this edited collection is on the ever-growing practice, in liberal states, to claim exemption from legal duties on the basis o...

This book gives new insights into employment law by analysing a neglected topic: remedies for breaches of employment rights. It explores remedies i...

Analyzing the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets, Law and Employment joins the ongoing debate about the virtues...

Neil Fligstein challenges prevailing theories of the corporation and proposes a radically new view in which the firm is driven not so much by marke...

This timely and controversial book presents powerful theoretical and empirical arguments for the repeal of the anti-discrimination laws within the ...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Pr...

When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon’s pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the d...

This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. According to Our Hearts begins with a look back at...

How much economic freedom is a good thing?  This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks tha...

This study of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) explains in detail how public officials in the executive branch and Congr...

This book explores how power operates in workplace settings at local, national and transnational levels. It argues that how people are valued in an...

In this book, Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour...

This disquieting yet important book describes the injustices, humiliations, and brutalities inflicted on African Americans in a racist culture that...

This original book seeks to shape current trends toward employer self-regulation into a new paradigm of workplace governance in which workers parti...

Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States - before social security, Medicare, or unempl...

The financial crisis both in the US and UK led to concerns that individual accountability of senior managers in the banking sector had to be streng...

A meticulous and exhaustive accounting of the total economic devastation wreaked on Black communities by mass incarceration with an action guide fo...

Although in the 1960s and mid-1970s scholars began to question the ability of Israeli Arabs to find equal employment opportunities, there has been ...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

"A smart, well-documented book about a group of people determined to hold the powerful to account."—2021 NPR "Books We Love" "Journalism at its bes...

This is a key textbook for postgraduate students taking a module in employment relations on both CIPD and non-CIPD accredited master's courses Ma...

Unionizing the Ivory Tower chronicles how a thousand low-paid custodians, cooks, and gardeners succeeded in organizing a union at Cornell Universit...

Written in a clear, direct style, this book provides educators with a comprehensive presentation of the laws and rules governing collective bargain...

A series of five lectures presenting a summary of critical problems in the development of the national labor policy, delivered by the author, at th...

This important book addresses head-on the controversy over attempts to reshape society in the name of antidiscrimination. While most Americans unde...

Modern Communications Law provides the most comprehensive and contemporary coverage of communications law available, a subject characterized by rap...