Labour legislation and public policy : a contemporary history
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Labour legislation and public policy : a contemporary history
（Clarendon law series）
Clarendon Press, 1993
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780198760603
Description
In this path-breaking work, the authors seek to offer students a fresh way of looking at modern labour law. By taking as their starting point the idea that labour law, having once been governed by common law rules, is now overwhelmingly regulated by statute, the authors show that labour law can only be studied properly by understanding the legislation behind it.
They then proceed to lead the student to an understanding of how and why the legislation came to be enacted. They therefore examine, in chronological order, the history and political context of every major piece of labour legislation from 1945 up to and including the momentous changes of the Thatcher years. Guiding the reader through four and a half decades of almost continuous legislative activity, the authors successfully demonstrate how the law was created and why it looks as it does today.
No other textbook on this subject takes this approach.
Table of Contents
- 1. Collective Laissez-faire
- 2. Full Employment and the Post-war Consensus 1945-1951
- 3. The Easy Decade 1951-1961
- 4. Modernization and Experiments with Planning 1961-1970
- 5. Industrial Justice and the Individual Worker 1968-1971
- 6. The End of Agreement: Collective Labour Law 1965-1974
- 7. The Social Contract 1974-1979
- 8. Reducing the Power of Trade Unions 1979-1990
- 9. Restructuring the Labour Economy 1979-1990
- Conclusion - A Post-war Perspective
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: pbk ISBN 9780198762881
Description
The traditional legal textbooks aim to give students of the law a synoptic overview of the present state of law in a particular area. In doing so, most books offer only a cursory assessment of how the law came to be the way it is and what economic, political and social forces were brought to bear during its evolution. This study seeks to offer students a different kind of text, which takes as its starting point the law as it was in 1945. Guiding the student through four-and-a-half decades of almost continuous legislative activity, Davies and Freedland show how the law was created, and why it looks as it does today. The history explored is from 1945 to 1990, but not including the period since Mr Major succeeded Mrs Thatcher as Prime Minister. Paul Davies is also the editor of the "Industrial Law Journal". Mark Freedland has also written "The Contract of Employment" and "Labour Law, Cases and Materials" (with Paul Davies).
Table of Contents
- Collective laissez-faire
- full employment and the postwar consensus 1945-1951
- the easy decade 1951-1961
- modernization and experiments with planning 1961-1969
- industrial justice and the individual worker 1968-1974
- the end of agreement - collective labour law 1964-1970
- the failed revolution - collective labour law 1970-1974
- the social contract 1974-1979
- reducing the power of trade unions 1979-1990
- restructuring the labour economy 1979-1990
- conclusion - a post-war perspective.
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