Providing a clear introduction to employment law, this updated edition looks at the principles of the law governing employment relations, including employment contracts, industrial relations, discrimination laws, and the application of human rights law.

Professor Hugh Collins studied law at Oxford University and Harvard Law School. He taught law at Brasenose College, Oxford, before moving in 1991 to the London School of Economics to the chair in English Law. He has previous books include the first edition of this title, Regulating Contracts (OUP, 1999), Labour Law: Texts and Materials 2nd edn ( with K.D. Ewing and A. McColgan, Hart Publishing, 2005), and A European Civil Code: The Way Forward (CUP, 2008).

• Part I: Aims and Techniques of Employment Law


• 1: 'Labour is not a Commodity'


• 2: Regulating the Workplace


• Part II: Social Inclusion


• 3: Opportunity and Discrimination


• 4: Work and Life


• Part III: Competitiveness


• 5: Co-operation


• 6: Partnership


• 7: Competition and Industrial Action


• 8: Discipline and Dismissal


• 9: Economic Security


• Part IV: Citizenship


• 10: Civil Liberties at Work


• 11: Social Rights


• 12: Shelf-life