The Legal Concept of Work

Zoe Adams, Fellow and Admissions Tutor, King's College, University of Cambridge; Affiliated Lecturer of Law, University of Cambridge.Zoe Adams has a BA from Pembroke College, Cambridge, an LLM from the European University Institute in Florence, and a PhD from Pembroke College Cambridge. Her academic interests lie primarily in the realm of labour law, legal theory, legal methodology, social ontology, and law and economics. Her work places a particular emphasis on the relationship between law and capitalism, and the implications of this for the struggle for structural change. She is Fellow and Admissions Tutor at King's College Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge. She teaches labour law, tort law, and law and economics.

Much discussion in this book is about extra, unpaid work which employers expect and do not always reward. These unpaid duties include workers who sleep in overnight at nursing homes, and the gig economy when people are kept on call waiting for work (both of which have led to litigation). This interesting subject affects us all, either as employers or employees.

• Introduction PART I: The Social Ontology of Capitalism: Law, Work, and Time 1: The Legal Constitution of Work 2: Law, Capitalism, and the Function(s) of Work Part II: The Legal Conception of Work 3: Work and Employment Status: Juridical Conceptions of Dependent Working Relations 4: Work and Time 5: A History of Management 6: Work, Non-Work, Care and Gender Part III: The Legal Construction of Different Types of Work 7: Creative Work: A History of Book Publishing 8: Academic Work 9: Medical Work 10: Retail Work Conclusion