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  • A Practical Approach to Employment Law

    by John Bowers QC ...
    Series series A Practical Approach
    Employment law has undergone a great deal of change over the past few years; most significantly the enactment of the Equality Act 2010 and the case law that has emerged as a result have irrevocably altered the legal landscape in relation to discrimination in the workplace. These developments have been fully explored in this new edition of A Practical Approach to Employment Law. Now in its ninth ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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  • Farm Workers in Western Canada

    Injustices and Activism

    Edited by Shirley A. McDonald, Bob Barnetson ...
    Bill 6, the government of Alberta’s contentious farm workers’ safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act provides a right to work safely and a compensation system for those killed or injured at work, similar to other provinces. In nine essays, contributors to Farm Workers in Western Canada place ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Beauty Bias

    The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law

    by Deborah L. Rhode ...
    "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Are Trade Unions Still Relevant?

    Union Recognition 100 Years On

    by Dr Tom Turner, Dr Daryl D'Art, Dr Michelle O'Sullivan ...
    This edited collection examines the relevance of trade unions 100 years on from the 1913 Lockout in Dublin. The general argument underpinning the papers in this book is that trade unions are still relevant in the 21st century, since they provide an independent collective representation for workers and address the power imbalance between the worker and employer. All of the chapter authors are based ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Struck Out

    Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can be Done

    by David Renton ...
    Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation.In Struck Out, barrister David Renton gives a practical and critical guide to the system. In doing so he punctures a number of media myths about the Tribunals. Far from bringing flimsy cases, two-thirds of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Labor Guide to Labor Law

    by Bruce S. Feldacker, Michael J. Hayes ...
    Labor Guide to Labor Law is a comprehensive survey of labor law in the private sector, written from the labor perspective for labor relations students and for unions and their members. The text emphasizes issues of greatest importance to unions and employees. Where the law permits a union to make certain tactical choices, those choices are pointed out. Material is included on internal union ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • The Reach of Free Movement

    Edited by Mads Andenas, Tarjei Bekkedal, Luca Pantaleo ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The reach of free movement within the EU Internal Market and what constitutes a restriction are the topics of this book. For many years the tension between free movement and restrictions have been the subject of intense discussion and controversy, and this includes the constitutional reach of the rights conferred by the Treaty of Lisbon. Anything that makes movement less attractive or more ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • History of Social Law in Germany

    by Michael Stolleis ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazi-System and after World War II in the FRG and the GDR. The ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Protesting Affirmative Action

    The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution

    by Dennis Deslippe ...
    Series series Reconfiguring American Political History
    A lightning rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States over the past five decades. Dennis Deslippe here offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation’s race- and gender-sensitive hiring and promotion programs in higher education and the workplace.This story begins more than fifteen years before ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Migrant Rights at Work

    Law's precariousness at the intersection of immigration and labour

    by Laurie Berg ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
    Public debates about the terms of membership and inclusion have intensified as developed economies increasingly rely on temporary migrant labour. While most agree that temporary migrant workers are entitled to the general protection of employment laws, temporary migrants have, by definition, restricted rights to residence, full social protections and often to occupational and geographic mobility. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Fundamental Labour Rights in China - Legal Implementation and Cultural Logic

    Edited by Ulla Liukkunen, Yifeng Chen ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume gathers together chapters that address the theme of implementing fundamental labour rights in China. It explores the legal framework as well as key institutions and other actors along with the socio-economic context involved in interpretation, implementation, enforcement and overall promotion of fundamental labour rights in China. As a collection of chapters, it assembles comparative ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Resocialising Europe in a Time of Crisis

    Edited by Nicola Countouris, Mark Freedland ...
    Terms such as 'Social Europe' and 'European Social Model' have long resided in the political and regulatory lexicon of European integration. But in recent years, and in spite of the adoption of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the EU social profile has entered a profound period of crisis. The ECJ judgments of Viking and Laval exemplify the unresolved tension between the EU's strong market ... Read more

    $96.79 USD