The Modernisation of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in a Comparative Perspective,

These papers, by labour law and human resources scholars, practitioners, and trade union experts, shed light on how various jurisdictions are dealing with various issues of employment in a globalized world including the following: * competing paradigms in international business theory; * major business site selection; * atypical employment contracts; * risks for employment posed by operations on the financial markets; * workfare/flexicurity programmes; * the fear of social dumping; * legitimization of employee representatives’ cooperation at transnational level; * the ‘rights’ rhetoric of the neoliberal agenda; * workplace-level evidence of outsourcing consequences; * social security protection and the informal economy; and * occupational health.