The authors examine the feasibility of trade unionism for migrant care workers, based on a recent organizing drive in Israel. Distinguishing between trade unions and other civil society organizations, they re-examine the concept of workers' collective action, looking at what constitutes a trade...

This article depicts the role played by legal regulation of domestic work in Israel. The article commences with a short description of how care work has developed in Israel. Following this historic exposition, we present three legal "stories" that demonstrate the dual role of law (reflective and...

This is a chapter in a volume on "Reasonable Accommodation in the Modern Workplace", edited by Roger Blanpain and Frank Hendrickx (chapter 12).The goal of this chapter is to consider – and justify – the expansion of the duty to accommodate in labour law. Section §12.02 explains the two...

This paper focuses on two examples – first, the imposition of tariffs on tires made in China and exported to the United States, which culminated in a decision of World Trade Organization's (WTO) appellate body to uphold the US tariffs, and, second, the development of the European law,...

This article maps the precarious and unintended consequences that may emerge from the exceptional treatment of domestic work as “work like no other,” through an examination of the controversy over overtime pay for live-in care workers in Israel. While the case law from the Israeli labour...