Changing Industrial Relations & Modernisation of Labour Law

Thirty-three distinguished authorities in the field of labour and industrial relations law gather here to enhance and complement the work of the late Marco Biagi, a man who, at the time of his violent and untimely death, had shown himself to be the most insightful and committed international scholar in this complex and controversial – and, as it proved, even dangerous – field.

The topics covered range over many of Professor Biagi’s special interests, including the following:

• • the formulation of a new basis for labour law that could resolve new issues;
• • employee protection in corporate restructuring;
• • the trend toward individual “enterprise bargaining”;
• • a new European employment policy and what it might entail;
• • the growing phenomenon of “flexibilisation”;
• • the effects of an aging workforce;
• • the crucial nexus of free trade, labour, and human rights;
• • the promise of EU enlargement; and
• • protection of part-time workers.

There is a lot of insight, innovation, and just clear thinking in this wide-ranging and far-reaching book. It will be of exceptional value to scholars, lawyers, and others concerned with the extensive and unpredictable changes under way in today’s world of work.