This volume of essays is an audacious and successful bid to extend the horizons of labor law scholarship to advance the transformation of work and emancipation of the worker, with popular wellbeing and happiness as the objectives. Most national accounts of labor law accept the contours of systems that ration exploitation. What if we were to practice utopianism as a method to address the multiple crises of climate change, rapacious growth, suffocating work, destructive technologies, and global inequality? The idea for the book emerged from a meeting of the editors at the 2019 ILO Conference on Regulating for Decent Work and the essays in the book exemplify global academic collaboration.

Autorentext
Nicolas Bueno is Assistant Professor of Law at UniDistance Suisse. He completed his PhD in public international law at the University of Lausanne after a research stay at Columbia Law School (2012-2013, Fulbright). He conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Louvain (2016), the London School of Economics (2017), and at the University of Zurich (2018-2021) with research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation. His research in Labour Law & Political Economy has been published in the International Labour Review, the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, and the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law. His current project focuses on the economic ideology of labour law from classical liberalism to post-growth economics. Beryl ter Haar is UW Professor and Head of the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS) at the University of Warsaw, Poland and Endowed professor European and Comparative Labour Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research deals with international and European labour law, especially collective bargaining, social dialogue, new governance, transnational private regulation, and the future of labour law. She has published widely on these issues in national and international journals and edited books. She is co-editor of several books and a member of editorial boards of various (labour) law journals. Nuna Zekic is Associate Professor of labour law at the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies - Hugo Sinzheimer Institute (AIAS-HSI) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Previously, she worked at Tilburg University where she also obtained her PhD in the field of labour law. Her expertise lies in the area of labour law and more precisely, dismissal law, flexible working arrangements, and collective bargaining. She has published widely on these issues both in national and international journals. She has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Italy, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Lund University in Sweden. She acts as deputy judge at 's-Hertogenbosch Appeal Court in the Netherlands.

Klappentext

Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth & Post-Productive Work Approaches engages with new socioeconomic ideas that look beyond the current growth-driven competitive market economy. It explores alternative approaches and what those would mean for work in general, and labour law in particular.

Zusammenfassung
Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth & Post-Productive Work Approaches engages with new socioeconomic ideas that look beyond the current growth-driven competitive market economy. It explores alternative approaches and what those would mean for work in general, and labour law in particular.

Inhalt

• 1: Nicolas Bueno, Beryl ter Haar, and Nuna Zekic: Labour Law Beyond Growth and Productivism: An Introduction

• 2: Brian Langille: The Coast of (Labour Law's) Utopia

• 3: Beryl ter Haar: Economic Paradigm Shifts for Labour Law

• 4: Nuna Zekic: Labour Law for Degrowth and Meaningful Work

• 5: Rodrigo Carelli: First Lines for an Ecological Labour Law: A Social Utopia for the Anthropocene

• 6: Surya Deva and Pushkar Anand: A Global South Perspective on Labour Rights and Supply Chains for a Post-Growth World

• 7: Nicolas Bueno: Including the Non-Economic Value of Work in Labour Law

• 8: Paolo Tomassetti: Labour Law and the Utopia of the Commons

• 9: Rafael Encinas de Muñagorri: Labour Law for Care and Wellbeing

• 10: Einat Albin: Channelling Technologies to Benefit Employees via Labour Law

• 11: Alexander De Becker and Flore Claus: Social Security and the Right to Laziness Beyond just Basic Income

• 12: Sergio Gamonal C.: Utopia, Power, and Free Labour

• 13: Elise Dermine and Daniel Dumont: Conclusion: Utopias for an Ecological Social Law and How to Get There