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Otto Kahn-Freund war einer der bedeutendsten Arbeitsrechtler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Schuler Hugo Sinzheimers war Vorsitzender Richter am Berliner Arbeitsgericht, ehe ihn die Nationalsozialisten zur Emigration zwangen. In Oxford wurde er Lehrstuhlinhaber fur Comparative Law und Mitglied der International Law Society. Im Vordergrund der vorliegenden Arbeit steht sein arbeitsrechtlicher Einfluss bis 1933, welcher bis in die Gegenwart wirkt.

As genetic technologies advance, genetic testing may well offer the prospect of detecting the onset of future disabilities. Some research also forwards that certain behavioural profiles may have a strong genetic basis, such as the determination to succeed, or the propensity for risk-taking. As this technology becomes more prevalent, there is a danger that genetic information may be misused by third parties and that particular genetic profiles may be discriminated against by employers, by providers of social goods and services, such as insurance companies and even by educational...

Key Cases breaks down the case law into recognisable and memorable elements, including the key facts, key law, key principles, key judgments, key comments and key problems as appropriate in each case. Diagrams that summarise the key points are included at the start of each chapter.

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A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws--such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws--from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the feminist attack on single-sex protective laws in the 1960s and 1970s.

Nancy Woloch considers the network of institutions that...

The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status has frequently been neglected. It is primarily the moments of crisis, incidents of human trafficking, slavery or forced labour, that have captured the attention of human rights law. Only recently has human rights law has begun to address the structured inequalities and exclusions that define the domain of domestic work.

This book addresses the specific position of domestic workers in the context of...

This title was first published in 2001. Detailed interviews with activists and case studies of decision-making bodies show how different membership groups exploit equal opportunities strategies to facilitate or impede women. These case studies expose the conundrum of understanding women as a differentiated but distinct membership group. They illustrate why women activists need to be understood in their diverse and multiple roles of being low paid workers, black women, lesbians and members of political parties, but also demonstrate that women are most empowered when treated as an oppressed...