This Article challenges the state-centered description of labor law and impoverished view of extraterritoriality. It suggests that transnational flows of technology and capital, goods and services, and ideas and information have brought in their wake changes in political economy and social...

The notion of the Sharing Economy is but the most recent euphamism used to translate disruptive and transformative labour market developments that fundamentally diminish workers' rights and remuneration

In this paper, I address the contradiction between two developments: the expansion of constitutional rights in postwar capitalist democracies and the recent rise of inequality in those same countries. While discounting the ability of law to fundamentally transform societies and economies, I note...

This paper, delivered at the 50th anniversary conference of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA), explores the relationship between academic research and public policy in the field of industrial relations and more broadly. Following an analysis of the current state of industrial...

Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that as one descends the socio-economic gradient, people suffer worse health outcomes and die sooner. While no single comprehensive epidemiological study has established a similar link between economic or social inequality, on the one hand, and the...

A brief review of historical antecedents and contemporary examples of genuine sharing demonstrates that what we currently call “the sharing economy” is misleadingly named. Its disruptive effects on labour and non-labour markets is reviewed and possible strategies are suggested for resolution...

‘What is labour law for?’ is a question with a past. I therefore begin by sketching out its history. It has a present too, whose most striking feature – I argue – may well be the end of ‘labour.’ And of course it has a future: what will labour law look like ‘after labour?’ I...