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Industrial Law Journal 2007 36(4):397-424; doi:10.1093/indlaw/dwm027
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Labour Law 2008: 40 Years On

Lord Wedderburn*

* QC FBA, Emeritus Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. The annotated text of a talk given to the Industrial Law Society Anniversary Conference in Oxford on 15 September 2007. On the mysterious origins of the Society, see B. Hooberman (1997) 26 ILJ 289


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What has happened to British Labour Law over the past 40 years? It has become a larger more juridified subject. But its development requires an understanding of the New Capitalism that has emerged, with capital more mobile and powerful in globalisation. Three aspects are chosen for comment: First the meaning of the recent review by the Law Lords of economic torts. Second, the arguments about the contract of employment in Britain and Italy, in the context of the regulation debate, forthcoming legislation and the search for acceptable standards of social justice. Thirdly, the scene is set in European law for a new chapter in the tension between employers' economic freedoms in the internal market and social rights, including the right to strike.


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