A Rose by Any Other Name: Work Law as the Law of Power
Author ORCID Identifier
Harry W. Arthurs: 0009-0000-1890-1884
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
8-21-2024
Source Publication
Arthurs, Harry W., 'A Rose by Any Other Name: Work Law as the Law of Power', in Guy Davidov, Brian Langille, and Gillian Lester (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work (2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 21 Aug. 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192870360.013.2
Keywords
political economy; power; workplace; labour markets; labour law; employment law
Abstract
This chapter reviews the troubled histories of labour and employment law, reviews the forces that have destabilized them, and identifies the most promising—albeit non-legal—strategies for developing the new field of ‘work law’. The old regimes of labour and employment law are faltering under pressure of neoliberalism, new technologies, new legal strategies, globalization, and other hostile developments. A new regime of ‘work law’ is struggling to be born. But work law, too, is likely to falter unless it is achieved and supported by a new constellation of social forces powerful enough to secure justice not just for ‘workers’, but for a broad array of subaltern communities.
Repository Citation
Arthurs, H. W., "A Rose by Any Other Name: Work Law as the Law of Power" (2024). Articles & Book Chapters. 3226.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/3226
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