Re-Imagining Labour Law for Development: Informal Work in the Global North and South - Softcover

Diamond Ashiagbor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509946292 ISBN 13: 9781509946297

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

The aim of this book is to explore labour law’s conceptual and normative narrative. If labour law is informed by the wider political and economic landscape within which it operates, then given the declining prevalence of the post-war model of full employment within a formal welfare state regime, what shape does or should labour law assume in response to the transformation of the political economy in countries of the global North? Correspondingly, what is the proper role to be played by labour law and labour relations institutions in the development process within industrialising countries of the global South, where informal employment has long been, and remains, the predominant form? Drawing on the expertise of leading labour law scholars, this collection addresses those questions by examining the growth and continued prevalence of informality. Offering research that is both empirically grounded and doctrinally astute, the book explores the changing character of labour law in the global North and South.

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About the Author

Diamond Ashiagbor is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509946292
• ISBN 13: 9781509946297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Diamond Ashiagbor