This edited collection is the culmination of a comparative project on 'Voices at Work' funded by the Leverhulme Trust 2010 - 2013. The book aims to shed light on the problematic concept of worker 'voice' by tracking its evolution and its complex interactions with various forms of law. Contributors to the volume identify the scope for continuity of legal approaches to voice and the potential for change in a sample of industrialised English speaking common law countries, namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and USA. These countries, facing broadly similar regulatory dilemmas, have often...

Written by a team of world-leading experts, this book sets the contract of employment in its theoretical context and provides a detailed doctrinal analysis of the subject. An ambitious and comprehensive treatise, this book will be the primary reference for practitioners and academics in the field.

To what extent is labour law an autonomous field of study? This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on this theme, delivered at a conference to mark Professor Mark Freedland's retirement from his teaching fellowship in Oxford. The chapters explore the boundaries and connections between labour law and other legal disciplines such as company law, competition law, contract law and public law; labour law and legal methodologies such as reflexive governance and comparative law; and labour law and other disciplines such as ethics, economics and...

"These essays on the Supreme Court's decision in Patel v Mirza (2016), which has revolutionised the law on illegality by replacing the previous "rule-based" approach by a "factors-based" one, were first presented at a conference in May 2017."