Landmark Cases in Labour Law

by Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Editor), Alan Bogg (Editor), ACL Davies (Editor)

Overview

This book features essays by leading legal scholars on 'landmark' labour law cases from the mid-19th century to the present day. The essays are acutely sensitive to the historical and theoretical context of each case, and the volume provides original and sometimes startling new perspectives on some familiar friends.

There are few activities as distinctively human as work and labour. The book traces the development of labour law through the social struggles and economic conflicts between workers, trade unions, and employers. The narrative arc of its landmark cases reveals the richness and complexity of the human story played out in the working lives of real people. It also charts the remarkable transformation of the constitutional role of courts in labour law, from instruments of class oppression to the vindication of workers' fundamental rights at work.

The collection will be of interest to students, scholars, and legal practitioners in labour and equality law, as well as students in management studies, industrial relations, and labour history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509944279
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/15/2022
Series:	Landmark Cases
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jeremias Adams-Prassl is Professor of Law and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, UK.
Alan Bogg is Professor of Labour Law and Postgraduate Research Director at the University of Bristol Law School, UK.
ACL Davies is Professor of Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, UK.
Jeremias Adams-Prassl is Professor of Law at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK, and Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, UK.
Alan Bogg is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol and a Barrister at Old Square Chambers. He was previously a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and Professor of Labour Law in the University of Oxford. He retains an Emeritus Fellowship at Hertford College. He is the author of The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition (Hart, 2009), which was awarded the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2010. He is a co-author of the multi-author volume The Contract of Employment (OUP, 2016); and the co-author of Human Rights at Work: Reimagining Employment Law (Hart, 2024) (with Hugh Collins, ACL Davies, and Virginia Mantouvalou). Alan was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law in 2014.

Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
ACL Davies is Professor of Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, UK.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: A Brief Cartography of Landmarks in Labour Law
Jeremias Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford, UK), Alan Bogg (University of Bristol, UK) and ACL Davies (University of Oxford, UK)
1. Riley v Warden – A Landmark Case?
Zoe Adams (University of Cambridge, UK)
2. Hornby v Close (1867): Freedom of Contract and Freedom of Trade
Joanna McCunn (University of Bristol, UK)
3. Devonald v Rosser and Sons (1906): Avoiding One-Sidedness in Contracts for Personal Performance of Work
Astrid Sanders (London School of Economics, UK)
4. Financing the Parliamentary Representation of Labour: Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants v Osborne
David Cabrelli (University of Edinburgh, UK)
5. Rookes' Tale
Roderick Bagshaw (University of Oxford, UK)
6. Grunwick Processing Laboratories Ltd v ACAS: The Social Contract, Trade Union Recognition, and the Rule of Law
KD Ewing (King's College London, UK)
7. Iceland Frozen Foods Ltd v Jones (1982): Fairness, Forty Years on
Philippa Collins (University of Bristol, UK)
8. O'Kelly v Trusthouse Forte PLC: A Landmark of Legalism
ACL Davies (University of Oxford, UK)
9. A Half-Forgotten Landmark: Enderby v Frenchay and the Continuing Challenges of Equal Pay Laws
Sandra Fredman (University of Oxford, UK)
10. Wilson and Palmer: A Biographical Portrait of a Landmark Case
Alan Bogg (University of Bristol, UK)
11. Malik v BCCI: The Impact of Good Faith
Douglas Brodie (University of Strathclyde, UK)
12. Johnson v Unisys Ltd (2001): A Compelling Constitutional Vision of Common Law and Statute?
Joe Atkinson (University of Sheffield, UK)
13. Autoclenz v Belcher (2011): Divining 'The True Agreement Between the Parties'
Jeremias Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford, UK)
14. Headscarves, Tolerance and EU Law: Achbita, Bougnaoui and WABE
Catherine Barnard (University of Cambridge, UK)