New Book: Comparative Labor Law Research Handbook

New Book: Comparative Labor Law Research Handbook, edited by Prof. Guy Mundlak (TAU Law) and Prof. Matthew W. Finkin (University of Illinois), Elgar Publishing.

10 September 2015
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The new book assembles an international team of experts, drawing on a rich variety of comparative methods to capture changes in different countries and regions, emerging trends and national divergences in labor law. Among the contributors are K. Banks, A. Bogg, S. Bonfanti, S. Butterworth, S. Cooney, L. Corazza, N. Countouris, G. Davidov, D. du Toit, K.D. Ewing, M. Finkin, R. Fragale, M. Freedland, N. Garoupa, S. Giubboni, F. Hendrickx, J. Howe, A. Hyde, E. Kovacs, R. Krause, N. Lyutov, E. Menegatti, L. Mitrus, G. Mundlak, R. Nunin, M. Pittard, O. Razzolini, K. Rittich,

Economic pressure and corporate policies, both transnational and domestic, have placed labor law under severe pressures. National responses are so deeply embedded in institutions reflecting local traditions that meaningful comparison is daunting.

This important book will be essential reading for those who wish to understand the reasons for the continuing divergences and similarities between national systems of labor law in the age of modern globalization and the growing influences of global competition, internationalization and regionalization on labor standards and processes. The authors not only provide new and sometimes provocative insights into traditional topics such as freedom of association, employees’ representation and the personal contact of employment, but also newer areas such as workplace discrimination, privacy, and new forms of contracting.

Professor Mundlak is a full professor at TAU Law and at the Department of Labor Studies at TAU, and an expert in labor law. In 2009-11, he served as Head of the Department of Labor Studies, was Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, and the editor of the Hebrew Journal Labor, Society & Law.

Prof. Mundlak’s research focuses on the impact of law on the labor market and the welfare state. More particularly, his work explores the relationship between labor law and industrial relations, the internalization of employment standards in economic enterprises and the role of human resource professionals in this process; constitutional social rights in general, and the rights to social security and work in particular;  the effects of globalization on labor markets, the efficacy of international instruments in responding to the regulatory deficit, looking at both the movement of capital and labor.

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