Collective Bargaining for the ‘New’ WorkingClass: Putting ‘Personal Work Relations’ toWork for Street Vendors
Description The paper addresses the issue of whether the scope of labour law, particularly the institution of collective bargaining, can expand to include informal self-employed workers? The article discusses the capability, regulatory, human rights and personal work relations theories; it…
Using AI to Mitigate the Employee Misclassification Problem
Description: Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is widespread. This article aims to make two contributions. My first goal is to sharpen the explanation of why misclassifications persist; I argue that three well-known problems – the indeterminacy of employee status…
Work in prison: Reintegrationor exclusion and exploitation?
Description: Work opportunities in prison can be valuable for the incarcerated. However, prison labour pre-sents significant challenges because of its location behind prison walls away from the public eye,where prison authorities exercise unprecedented power over individuals. Even though work isnot…
Labour Justice – A Constitutional Evaluation of Labour Law
This book argues that the imagination of the worker-citizen, inherent in citizens’ constitutional duty to work, is the very foundation of constitutional citizenship and its social justice agenda. The design of social justice in the constitution takes labour as its…
Labour Law and Economic Policy. How Employment Rights improve the Economy (HART)
Description: This book studies labour institutions from an economic perspective to justify their existence and the advantages that they bring to innovation, efficiency, productivity, and economic growth. The philosophical foundations of labour law rely on the protection of the weaker…
Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development Leaving No One in the World of Work Behind
Description: Tonia Novitz’s new book was published in the Edward Elgar Labour Law series, Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development: Leaving No One in the World of Work Behind. The book is now available in hard copy and as an e-book.…
Mass influx of people from Ukraine: social entitlements and access to the labour market
Description: The book is available at the following link: Publication: – includes 25 country reports describing how (on a social and labour market level) individual countries (also from outside the EU) have dealt with the mass influx of people…
Consent to Labour Exploitation
Description: This article argues there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the role of consent to labour exploitation. However, there is significant value in considering the theoretical underpinnings of different legal interventions addressing labour exploitation. The article first explores different theoretical…