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Labour and the Wage: A Critical Perspective
This book examines the problem of wage security and clarity of employment in labour law. It studies the neoclassical and institutional models of labour law, and the wage. It concludes that the way the wage is treated in labour law theory is dependent upon the way legal concepts themselves are conceptualized by their users.
| Author(s) | By Zoe Adams (Junior Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge and Affiliated Lecturer, Junior Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge and Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 316 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 26 Mar 2020 |
| Availability | POD |
This book examines the problem of wage security and clarity of employment in labour law. It studies the neoclassical and institutional models of labour law, and the wage. It concludes that the way the wage is treated in labour law theory is dependent upon the way legal concepts themselves are conceptualized by their users.
Introduction 1: An Ontology of Capitalism 2: Legal Form 3: The Wage 4: The Emergence of the Wage 5: Wages, Salary and Remuneration - Towards a Social Wage 6: The (Return of the) 'Market Wage' 7: The Statutory Minimum Wage 8: Mutuality of Obligatio
Zoe Adams has a BA from Pembroke College, Cambridge, an LLM from the European University Institute in Florence, and a PhD from Pembroke College Cambridge. Her academic interests lie primarily in the realm of labour law, legal theory, legal methodology, so
