Product Description This addition to the Clarendon Law Series offers a fresh approach to the law governing employment relations, emphasising the contemporary policy themes of social inclusion, competitiveness, and the rights of citizenship in the workplace. It acts as a succinct and accessible overview for those new to the subject as well as an excellent summary for students. Employment Law covers all the main areas of the subject including anti-discrimination laws, trade unions and industrial action, contracts of employment and human rights in the workplace. It also discusses how UK law, under the influence of EC law and international protection of human rights, has been transformed for the twentieth-first century by pursuing new goals such as helping to achieve a better balance between work and life, to improve the competitiveness of business through partnership institutions, and to provide superior protection for the basic rights of employees in the workplace. Offering frequent and illuminating comparisons with the law of other countries, including the United States, Professor Collins also discusses the effectiveness of employment regulation as well as examining the different national and transnational methods available. Review `Review from other book by this author Regulating Contracts is the most innovative and important book on contract written in this country since The Rise and Fall of Freddom of Contract.' David Campbell Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Vol. 20 2000`...bold and imaginative monograph...many merits...multi-disciplinary approach...all is written in an elegant, jargon-free language...stregthened by a keen awareness of empirical fact. Regulating Contracts is an outstanding work of scholarship. It should be very widely read.' Anthony Ogus The Law Quarterly Review October 2000`Regulating Contracts is an ambitious and comprehensive book ... an important contribution to contract-law scholarship.' Robert A. Hillman, Journal of Law and Society`Regulating Contractsis an imprtant and intersting book. The book will reward the reader with insights on virtually every aspect of contract law.' Robert A. Hillman, Journal of Law and Society About the Author Hugh Collins is Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to this, he was Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the School of Law, Boston University and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia. He serves on the Editorial Committees of the Modern Law Review and the Industrial Law Journal.