Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- PART I: Aims and Techniques of Employment Law -- 1. 'Labour is not a Commodity' -- 1 The contract of employment -- 2 The shifting objectives of employment law -- 3 An emerging European model -- 2. Regulating the Workplace -- 1 Compliance, reflexivity, and procedural regulation -- 2 Regulating contracts -- 3 The case for mandatory regulation -- 4 Globalization and levels of regulation -- PART II: Social Inclusion -- 3. Opportunity and Discrimination -- 1 Proving discrimination -- 2 Justifying discrimination -- 3 Eradicating discrimination -- 4. Work and Life -- 1 A living wage -- 2 Equal pay -- 3 Flexible hours -- 4 The role of government -- PART III: Competitiveness -- 5. Cooperation -- 1 Mutual trust and confidence -- 2 Adaptation -- 3 Formality -- 4 Grievances -- 5 Human capital -- 6 Flexibility and fairness -- 6. Partnership -- 1 Promoting collective bargaining -- 2 Consultation mechanisms -- 3 Stakeholder organizations -- 4 Industrial democracy -- 7. Competition and Industrial Action -- 1 Migration -- 2 State aid -- 3 Industrial action -- 4 Contractual restraints on competition -- 8. Discipline and Dismissal -- 1 Contractual protection -- 2 Collective self-regulation -- 3 Mandatory regulation -- 4 The standard of fairness -- 5 The problem of compliance -- 9. Economic Security -- 1 Contractual allocation of risk -- 2 Safeguarding deferred pay -- 3 Economic dismissals -- 4 Transfers of businesses -- 5 Corporate insolvency -- PART IV: Citizenship -- 10. Civil Liberties at Work -- 1 Rights talk -- 2 The European Convention on Human Rights -- 3 Privacy -- 4 Freedom of expression -- 5 Dress and grooming codes -- 11. Social Rights -- 1 An integrated approach -- 2 Health and safety -- 3 The right to organize -- 4 The right to strike -- 5 The right to work -- 6 Rights and citizenship.

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