'This work is most welcome ... it can be confidently stated that although not all readers will agree with either Hugh Collins' starting points or his conclusions, they will have been stimulated into arguments far more conceptual, fundamental and wide-ranging than one normally associates with the topic of dismissal. This is a most worthy addition to the OUP monograph series.'Hazel McLean, Trinity College, Cambridge, Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4, December 1992

• Harsh but fair; a taxonomy of dismissals; substantive fairness in disciplinary dismissals; procedural fairness; economic dismissals and social cost; civil liberties in the shadow of managerial prerogative; the search for legal guarantees of job security; the social and economic effects of dismissal law.

'This work is most welcome ... it can be confidently stated that although not all readers will agree with either Hugh Collins' starting points or his conclusions, they will have been stimulated into arguments far more conceptual, fundamental and wide-ranging than one normally associates with the topic of dismissal. This is a most worthy addition to the OUP monograph series.'Hazel McLean, Trinity College, Cambridge, Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4, December 1992

• Harsh but fair; a taxonomy of dismissals; substantive fairness in disciplinary dismissals; procedural fairness; economic dismissals and social cost; civil liberties in the shadow of managerial prerogative; the search for legal guarantees of job security; the social and economic effects of dismissal law.