Employment Law in Context: Text and Materials, 4th Edition

• A brand new up-to-date text that combines sophisticated author commentary with carefully chosen extracts from employment law cases and materials. The book covers key cases in depth, enabling the reader to engage critically with judgments, issues, and policies.
• Takes a thorough and detailed approach to individual labour law, with chapters on collective labour law available online, providing a comprehensive and reliable guide to this dynamic subject.
• The highly contextual format outlines the social, economic, political, and historical context in which employment law operates, enabling the reader to understand the key and current debates in the subject.
• An engaging running case study demonstrates the practical applications of the law by following the life-cycle of a company from incorporation, through expansion, to insolvency.
• Extensive use of in-chapter reflection points encourages critical engagement with the issues at stake and provides points for discussion in seminars.
• Further reading suggestions are woven throughout the text to provide targeted opportunities for additional research, enabling the reader to gain a rounded understanding of employment law.

Employment Law in Context combines extracts from leading cases and articles with insightful and sophisticated author commentary to provide the reader with a full critical understanding of employment law. As well as providing a thorough grounding in individual labour law, this title offers the reader detailed analysis of the social, economic, political, and historical context in which employment law operates, drawing attention to key and current areas of debate. 

An innovative running case study contextualises employment law and demonstrates its practical applications by following the life-cycle of a company from incorporation, through expansion, to liquidation. Numerous reflection points and further reading suggestions are woven throughout the text to support the development of critical thinking skills.