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Death of Labour Law?

Comparative Perspectives

Academic Monograph

Martin Vranken

Death of Labour Law? questions the on-going relevance of labour law in Western industrialised society and Australia in the twenty first century.

Opinion

“This book provides a concise and informative study of the major themes of labour law and regulation . . . [and] will enrich Australians' understanding of our system and perhaps, in the light of the European experiences, give us clues as to where we are headed in the future.” Deakin Law Review 2009

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“The text provides a timely, valuable and contemporary aid in evaluating the role of labour law from an Australasian perspective. It will provide a useful supplement to those with an interest in comparative studies and an understanding of key debates in the wider industrial relations literature.”
Industrial Relations Journal, September 2009

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About this Title

Death of Labour Law? questions the on-going relevance of labour law in Australia and other Western industrialised societies in the twenty-first century. The tension between economic flexibility for business and social stability for workers is set against the backdrop of the Rudd government's 'Forward with Fairness' reform agenda and similar proposals for change in the European Union.

Martin Vranken retraces the birth and subsequent growth of labour law and argues that it is essentially a mechanism for employee protection, not labour market regulation.

Death of Labour Law? offers a fresh perspective on the current debate about labour law and the role of the state in Australian industrial and workplace relations.

About the Author

Martin Vranken is a Reader in Law at the University of Melbourne. He has also worked for the Institute for Labour Relations at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and at the Industrial Relations Centre at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His previous books include Federalism and Labour Law
(co-edited with Othmar Vanachter), Employees and the Law: Australasian
Experiments, Fundamentals of European Civil Law and Dismissal and
Redundancy Procedures (with Alexander Szakats and Margaret A. Mulgan).

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