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Class Crimes: Master And Servant Laws And Factories Acts In Industrializing Britain And (Ontario) Canada, Eric Tucker, Judy Fudge
Class Crimes: Master And Servant Laws And Factories Acts In Industrializing Britain And (Ontario) Canada, Eric Tucker, Judy Fudge
Articles & Book Chapters
This chapter compares the historical development and use of criminal law at work in the United Kingdom and in Ontario, Canada. Specifically, it considers the use of the criminal law both in the master and servant regime as an instrument for disciplining the workforce and in factory legislation for protecting workers from unhealthy and unsafe working conditions, including exceedingly long hours work. Master and servant legislation that criminalized servant breaches of contract originated in the United Kingdom where it was widely used in the nineteenth century to discipline industrial workers. These laws were partially replicated in Ontario, where it had …
The Sharing Economy And The Edges Of Contract Law: Comparing U.S. And U.K. Approaches, Miriam A. Cherry
The Sharing Economy And The Edges Of Contract Law: Comparing U.S. And U.K. Approaches, Miriam A. Cherry
Faculty Publications
Technology and the rise of the on-demand or sharing economy have created new and diverse structures for how businesses operate and how work is conducted. Some of these matters are intermediated by contract, but in other situations, contract law may be unhelpful. For example, contract law does little to resolve worker classification problems on new platforms, such as ridesharing applications. Other forms of online work create even more complex problems, such as when work is disguised as an innocuous task like entering a code or answering a question, or when work is gamified and hidden as a leisure activity. Other …
English Labor Law - The 1984 Trade Union Immunities Act And Its Effect On Unions' Legal Status, Bret J. Pangborn
English Labor Law - The 1984 Trade Union Immunities Act And Its Effect On Unions' Legal Status, Bret J. Pangborn
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Discrimination In Employment: Reflections On The European Community Experience With Particular Reference To The United Kingdom, Brian Bercusson
Discrimination In Employment: Reflections On The European Community Experience With Particular Reference To The United Kingdom, Brian Bercusson
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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"Welcome To Europe, Which Has Always Been Yours": Are Bulgarians And Gypsies Second Class Citizens?, Adriana Hristova
"Welcome To Europe, Which Has Always Been Yours": Are Bulgarians And Gypsies Second Class Citizens?, Adriana Hristova
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Deterrence To Hiring Illegal Immigrant Workers: Will The New Employer Sanction Provisions Work?, Stephanie E. Steele
Deterrence To Hiring Illegal Immigrant Workers: Will The New Employer Sanction Provisions Work?, Stephanie E. Steele
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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The Emerging Anglo-American Model: Convergence In Industrial Relations Institutions?, Alexander Colvin, Owen R. Darbishire
The Emerging Anglo-American Model: Convergence In Industrial Relations Institutions?, Alexander Colvin, Owen R. Darbishire
Alexander Colvin
The Thatcher and Reagan administrations led a shift towards more market oriented regulation of economies in the Anglo-American countries, including efforts to reduce the power of organized labor. In this paper, we examine the development of employment and labor law in six Anglo-American countries (the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand) from the Thatcher/Reagan era to the present. At the outset of the Thatcher/Reagan era, the employment and labor law systems in these countries could be divided into three pairings: the Wagner Act model based industrial relations systems of the United States and Canada; the voluntarist system …
The Status Of Administrative Judges In The U.K.: Recruitment, Tenure, Training And Appraisal, Martin Partington
The Status Of Administrative Judges In The U.K.: Recruitment, Tenure, Training And Appraisal, Martin Partington
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
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Decent Work, Older Workers, And Vulnerability In The Economic Recession: A Comparative Study Of Australia, The United Kingdom, And The United States, Susan Bisom-Rapp, Andrew Frazer, Malcolm Sargeant
Decent Work, Older Workers, And Vulnerability In The Economic Recession: A Comparative Study Of Australia, The United Kingdom, And The United States, Susan Bisom-Rapp, Andrew Frazer, Malcolm Sargeant
Faculty Scholarship
In countries with aging populations, the global recession presents unique challenges for older workers, and compels an assessment of how they are faring. To this end, the International Labour Organization's concept of decent work provides a useful metric or yardstick. Decent work, a multifaceted conception, assists in revealing the interdependence of measures needed to secure human dignity across the course of working lives. With this in mind, in three English-speaking, common law countries (Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), this Article considers several decent work principles applicable to older workers and provides evaluations in light of them. Relevant …
Workplace Sexual Harassment In Singapore: The Legal Challenge, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Workplace Sexual Harassment In Singapore: The Legal Challenge, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Jack Tsen-Ta LEE
This article examines the nature and prevalence of sexual harassment in the work environment, and compares civil and criminal law in Singapore to the approaches taken by various jurisdictions in dealing with the problem. It is submitted that legislation is needed to protect employees, as Singapore law currently does not present any clear and coherent means for victims to seek redress for workplace sexual harassment.
The Worker And The Law, Innis Christie
The Worker And The Law, Innis Christie
Innis Christie Collection
Professor Wedderburn's addition to the Pelican Law Series is, in keeping with the best of that series, an excellent introduction to the industrial law of the United Kingdom. Like its predecessors this book is written "both for the general reader and for the student of our social and legal system". However, general readers will have to be rather sophisticated in the law to stay with Professor Wedderburn from "The Foundations of Labour Law", through five chapters on the "law of industrial peace" and four on the "law of industrial conflict", to his conclusion.