Constructing Worlds of Labour: Coverage and Generosity of Labour Law as Outcomes of Regulatory Social Policy [Hardcover]

This open access book simultaneously addresses both the segmenting and the egalitarian function of individual labour law, in almost all countries of the world, in some chapters following up from its origin to the present. Its socio-legal approach fills gaps for sociological, legal and historical research of regulatory social policy. Labour law is dealt with both in qualitative (theoretical, hermeneutic and historical) and in quantitative manner (with the leximetrics method developing new ways to measure generosity and coverage of law). This is a groundbreaking contribution to regulatory social policy research. By indicating the relevance and the mechanisms of legal segmentation for labour market segmentation, unequal opportunities and social stratification it provides evidence for the assumptions that social segmentation does not only stem from market forces, but also from the law itself. Even the rising impact of egalitarian law cannot fully cope with legal segmentation. The book chapters place particular emphasis on the development in countries of the Global South.

Chapter 1: Introduction:  Constructing Worlds of Labour in the Context of  Social Policy Research Introduction:  Constructing Worlds of Labour in the Context of  Social Policy Research.- Part 1: Legal Segmentation in Regulatory Social Policy: Concept, History, Measurement and Application.- Chapter 2: Legal Segmentation in the Global North and South:
Concept, Historical Emergence and  Tentative Theoretical Explanations.- Chapter 3: Using Leximetrics for Coding Legal Segmentation in Employment Law:
The Development and  Potential of the Worlds of Labour Dataset.- Chapter 4: Is the Standard Employment Relationship  Undergoing a Revival?  
Evidence from the 2023 Update of the CBR Labour  Regulation Index.- Chapter 5:&nló,