New frontiers in empirical labour law research / edited by Amy Ludlow and Alysia Blackham. - viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Edited collection draws together papers delivered at a symposium on New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research held at the University of Cambridge in April 2014"--Page i.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Amy Ludlow and Alysia Blackham -- Foreword: Evidence and ideology / Bob Hepple -- Individual rights at work, methodological experimentation and the nature of law / Lizzie Barmes -- Quantitative labour law / Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin -- Women in labour law : the use and implications of empirical methods / Lydia Hayes and Roseanne Russell -- Can behavioural psychology inform labour law? / Ewan McGaughey -- Using ethnographic methods to explore labour law questions / Amy Ludlow -- Collective labour law explored / Sonia McKay and Sian Moore -- No longer a "secondary force ... in labour relations" : a mixed methods study of the effect on Irish trade unions of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 / Tish Gibbons -- Using the Delphi method to advance legal reform : a new method for empirical labour law research? / Alysia Blackham -- Labour legislation and evidence-based public policy : a case study / Abi Adams and Jeremias Prassl -- Creating a "virtuous circle" between legal empirical research, knowledge exchange and impact / Simonetta Manfredi and Lucy Vickers.

9781849466783 9781474202312 (online)

2015506095


Labor laws and legislation--Research--Congresses.
Labor laws and legislation--Congresses.

K1704.8 / .N49 2014