There has been a great deal written about change in the nature of employment in advanced industrialized countries over the past two decades, but the economic data to substantiate this claim have been contradictory and/or ambiguous. Some analysts contend that the existing data show little or no...

The most important question for social policy today is: can the United States participate in global trade while maintaining a robust middle class? Or does expanded global trade necessarily mean doom for the U.S. middle class and others in advanced industrial nations? This question might have...

Professor Stone identifies three major trends in labor relations today: quot;flexibilization,quot; i.e., the abandonment of internal labor markets and the increasing use of casual, part-time and temporary work relations; quot;globalization,quot; i.e., the increase in cross-border transactions in...

Arbitration clauses have become a pervasive feature of modern life. The expanding scope of arbitration has become a cause for alarm amongst consumer and worker advocates, who see it as a judicial roll back of hard-won consumer and worker rights. Justice Antonin Scalia played a key role in the...

For the past two decades, there has been a transformation in the nature of work in industrial countries, a transformation that will have profound ramifications for decades to come. For most of the 20th century, the concept of “employment” meant a steady job with a decent wage level, an...

This article describes developments that have modified the at-will doctrine in the United States. It argues that the courts are evolving a hybrid type of employment contract which is neither strictly at-will nor a general form of dismissal protection

The economic analysis of labor and employment law is a bold effort to apply economic theory to explain important empirical facts about the regulation of the employment relationship and to provide positive predictions and normative analyses that are useful to policy-makers. This book draws...