How can the EU's community of welfare states adapt their public policies to economic globalization? What happens when the economic and social aims of the EU come into conflict?
This book examines the developing legal regimes and regulation of public services in the UK and provides a highly informative and novel case study of the interaction and conflict between the economic and social aims of the EU and between regulation at national and supranational levels, taking into account the changing forms which this regulation has taken.

The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations explores the conceptual framework of European employment law, focusing on understanding the law's construction of employment relationships. The book draws on extensive comparative research of the legal architecture of employment relations in national legal systems and EU law to analyse the traditional model of the contract of employment and the difficulties of using the traditional model to frame modern working relationships.
The authors then present a new model of the foundations of employment relationships, based on the concept...