The Rise and Development of Collective Labour Law

Contents: Jeremy Adelman: Labour Law in Twentieth Century Argentina - Raymond Markey: The Development of Collective Labour Law in Australia, 1788-1914 - Michael M. Hall: Labor and the Law in Brazil - Dale Gibson: Collective Labour Law in Canada 1812-1982: The Branch Plant Has a Few Ideas of Its Own - Norbert Olszak: The Historical Development of Collective Labour Law in France - Anthony Woodiwiss: Colonialism and the Development of Labour Law in Hong Kong - Sheldon Garon: Collective Labor Law in Japan Since 1882 - Susanne Fransson: Freedom of Contract, Parity and Collective Regulation: Collective Labour Law in Sweden - G.S. Shieh: Cultivation, Control and Dissolution: The Historical Transformation of the Labour Union Act of Taiwan, 1911-1990 - Gerry R. Rubin: The Historical Development of Collective Labour Law: The United Kingdom - Katherine Van Wezel Stone: Labor and the American State: The Evolution of Labor Law in the United States - Anthony Woodiwiss: Globalization, Property Relations and the History of Labour Law: The Beginning of a Voyage in? - Bob Hepple: The Historical Development of Collective Labour Law: Comparative Reflections.

The Editors: Marcel van der Linden is Senior Research Fellow of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam; and Executive Editor of the International Review of Social History.
Richard Price is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He has written books and articles on British labour and social history.