Labour Law Text and Materials 2nd Edition

Author: Hugh Collins; K.D. Ewing; Aileen McColgan
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781841133621
Published In: October 2005
Format: Paperback , 1166 pages
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The second edition of this book examines the law relating to employment, industrial relations, and labour market regulation in the United Kingdom, including relevant dimensions of EC law and policy. The text introduces selected extracts from cases, statutes, reports, official statistics, and academic commentary and analysis, and the whole is designed to provide all the materials needed for courses in labour law or employment law.

The text emphasises recent developments including the expansion of legal regulation, new forms of work, the integration of labour law with broader policies aimed at the enhancement of competitiveness and the prevention of social exclusion, equal opportunities and the protection of rights in the workplace, and new mechanisms for worker participation in decisions.

Contents:: Introduction to Labour Law; The Employment Relation; Equality of Opportunity; Protecting the Work/Life Balance; Dismissal; Human Rights and Labour Law; Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation; Trade Unions and their Members; Changes in the Business.

Hugh Collins is Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics.
K. D. Ewing is Professor of Public Law, Kings College, London.
Aileen McColgan is Professor of Human Rights Law at Kings College London.

This book succeeds admirably in providing students with an account of 'the core issues for labour law at the beginning of the twenty-first century' in a manner that places these issues in their broader social, legal and historical context.
Overall, this is an admirable book which will add to the relatively small number of undergraduate texts which offer sophisticated and intelligent analysis rather than superficial description.
The authors have achived their stated aim: this is a book which will please teachers of employment law who have regretted the lack of new editions of Elias, Napier and Wallington, or Davies and Freedland's similarly titled Labour Law: Text and Materials, 2nd edn (Weidenfeld Nicholson, 1984).
Linda Clarke, Sussex University
Industrial Law Journal
October 2001

Labour Law: Text and Materials is superbly written and, unlike many text and materials books, is succinctly and coherent written. It supremely balances text and materials; with the latter placing the former in its historical, legal and social context. This is some achievement and allows the reader to really understand the nuts and bolts of the law, its development and likely future. It is also an excellent starting point for further reading and allows students to achieve those all important extra marks.
Students looking for a more rounded view of employment law should seriously consider adding Labour Law: Text and Materials to their shelves. Without it, considerable time may be spent in the library trying to find the golden nuggets of information which appears between the covers. If it is combined with an introductory text on employment law (allowing the reader to quickly understand the basics), the reader will be fully armed to tackle any problem or essay on this important and ever developing area of law.
The Student Law Journal
June 2009

…an essential addition to any law library and should go on recommended reading lists for undergraduate students of labour law.
Alison Bone
The Law Teacher, Vol 41, No 1
2007