Landmark Cases in Labour Law

Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Alan Bogg, ACL Davies

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781509944309
• eBook ISBN: 9781509944279
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Labour & Employment Law
• Index: Law

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction: A Brief Cartography of Landmarks in Labour Law
• 1. Riley v Warden – A Landmark Case?
• 2. Hornby v Close (1867): Freedom of Contract and Freedom of Trade
• 3. Devonald v Rosser and Sons (1906): Avoiding One-Sidedness in Contracts for Personal Performance of Work
• 4. Financing the Parliamentary Representation of Labour: Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants v Osborne
• 5. Rookes’ Tale
• 6. Grunwick Processing Laboratories Ltd v ACAS: The Social Contract, Trade Union Recognition, and the Rule of Law
• 7. Iceland Frozen Foods Ltd v Jones (1982): Fairness, Forty Years on
• 8. O’Kelly v Trusthouse Forte PLC: A Landmark of Legalism
• 9. A Half-Forgotten Landmark: Enderby v Frenchay and the Continuing Challenges of Equal Pay Laws
• 10. Wilson and Palmer: A Biographical Portrait of a Landmark Case
• 11. Malik v BCCI: The Impact of Good Faith
• 12. Johnson v Unisys Ltd (2001): A Compelling Constitutional Vision of Common Law and Statute?
• 13. Autoclenz v Belcher (2011): Divining ‘The True Agreement Between the Parties’
• 14. Headscarves, Tolerance and EU Law: Achbita, Bougnaoui and WABE
• Index
• Copyright Page