Throughout the industrial world, the discipline of labor law has fallen into deep philosophical and policy crisis, at the same time as new theoretical approaches make it a field of considerable intellectual ferment. Modern labor law evolved in a symbiotic relationship with a postwar institutional and policy agenda, the social, economic and political underpinnings of which have gradually eroded in the context of accelerating international economic integration and wage-competition. These essays - which are the product of a transnational comparative dialog among academics and practitioners in labor law and related legal fields, including social security, immigration, trade, and development - identify, analyze, and respond to some of the conceptual and policy challenges posed by globalization.

The book has emerged from a series of international conferences held in recent years under the auspices of INTELL - International Network on Transformative Employment and Labour Law. The editors are co-secretaries of INTELL, teach and research in labour law, and have published widely within and beyond that field.

• Part I. Labour Law in Transition


• 1: Karl Klare: The Horizons of Transformative Labour and Employment Law


• 2: Massimo D'Antona: Labour Law at the Century's End: An Identity Crisis?


• Part II. Contested Categories: Work, Worker, and Employment


• 3: Joanne Conaghan: Women, Work, and Family: A British Revolution?


• 4: Paul Benjamin: Who Needs Labour Law? Defining the Scope of Labour Protection


• 5: Lucy Williams: Beyond Labour Law's Parochialism: A Re-envisioning of the Discourse of Distribution


• Part III. Globalization and Its Discontents


• 6: Kerry Rittich: Feminization and Contingency: Regulating the Stakes of Work for Women


• 7: Brian A. Langille: Seeking Post-Seattle Clarity - and Inspiration


• 8: Dennis M. Davis: Death of a Labour Lawyer?


• Part IV. Same as the Old Boss? The Firm, the Employment Contract, and the 'New' Economy


• 9: Simon Deakin: The Many Futures of the Contract of Employment


• 10: Paddy Ireland: From Amelioration to Transformation: Capitalism, the Market, and Corporate Reform


• 11: Makoto Ishida: Death and Suicide from Overwork: The Japanese Workplace and Labour Law


• 12: Alan Hyde: A Closer Look at the Emerging Employment Law of Silicon Valley's High-Velocity Labour Market


• 13: Richard Michael Fischl: 'A Domain into which the King's writ does not seek to run': Workplace Justice in the Shadow of Employment-at-Will


• Part V. Border/States: Immigration, Citizenship, and Community


• 14: Guy Mundlak: The Limits of Labour Law in a Fungible Community


• 15: Bruno Caruso: Immigration Policies in Southern Europe: More State, Less Market?


• 16: Margriet Kraamwinkel: The Imagined European Community: Are Housewives European Citizens?


• 17: Linda Bosniak: Critical Reflections on 'Citizenship' as a Progressive Aspiration


• Part VI. Labour Solidarity in an Era of Globalization: Opportunities and Challenges


• 18: Frances Raday: The Decline of Union Power - Structural Inevitability or Policy Choice?


• 19: James Atleson: The Voyage of the Neptune Jade: Transnational Labour Solidarity and the Obstacles of Domestic Law


• 20: Carlos de Buen Unna: Mexican Trade Unionism in a Time of Transition


• 21: Maria L. Ontiveros: A New Course for Labour Unions: Identity-based Organizing as a Response to Globalization


• 22: Michael Selmi and Molly McUsic: Difference and Solidarity: Unions in a Post-Modern Age


• Part VII. Laying Down the Law: Strategies and Frontiers


• 23: Hugh Collins: Is There a Third Way in Labour Law?


• 24: Harry Arthurs: Private Ordering and Workers' Rights in the Global Economy: Corporate Codes of Conduct as a Regime of Labour Market Regulation


• 25: Claire Kilpatrick: Emancipation through Law or the Emasculation of Law? The Nation-State, the EU, and Gender Equality at Work


• 26: Dennis Davis, Patrick Macklem, Guy Mundlak: Social Rights, Social Citizenship, and Transformative Constitutionalism: A Comparative Assessment