Labour law is in crisis. Global economic factors and the changing
contours of work and workplace relations have led to a reorientation of
the social, economic, political and cultural environment within which
labour law has developed. This is not a jurisdictional problem but
rather is deeply entrenched in transnational development. Solutions must
recognise and mobilise the transformational shift that has taken place
over recent decades. Law should be viewed as a force for and a
facilitator of change, capable of expressing and determining social
relations. The essays in this book explore the challenges posed by
labour law's potential reinvention as a discipline fit for accommodating
and investigating such change within a range of different but connected
jurisdictional and regulatory concepts and paradigms.