The Law and Collective Bargaining

Sources and Patterns of Regulation in the Modern World of Work
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5099-8811-2
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

This book examines the relationship between the law and collective bargaining in the modern world of work.

It brings together theoretical, normative and practical perspectives from around the world to rethink the nexus between the two institutions of work regulation and labour market governance in the face of unprecedented social and economic changes.

Recognised as a core international labour standard in many countries, collective bargaining is a fundamental institution of post-war democracies. Despite this, traditional collective bargaining systems inherited from the 20th-century industrial era are under pressure. The market-constitutive function of industrial relations institutions has lost traction, while statutory law - once responsive to collective bargaining - struggles to cope with fluid work arrangements and fragmented labour markets.

Drawing on a tradition of labour law scholarship grounded in legal pluralism, the book explores how legislators and industrial relations institutions are reshaping the law-collective bargaining nexus to cope with these challenges, in search for a renewed vision of labour governance: a vision that recognises law and collective bargaining as institutions of co-regulation, legal imagination, and social progress.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomassetti, Paolo

Bugada, Alexis

Forsyth, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Recht mehrerer Jurisdiktionen, Synopsen
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Tonia Novitz (University of Bristol, UK)
1. Introduction: Rethinking the Law-Collective Bargaining Nexus for the Twenty-first Century, Paolo Tomassetti (University of Milan, Italy), Alexis Bugada (Aix-Marseille University, France) and Anthony Forsyth (RMIT University, Australia)

Part I: The Law and Collective Bargaining: Theoretical and Cross-Cutting Aspects
2. Collective Bargaining, Dignity and Spheres of Justice, Sergio Gamonal (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
3. Contrasting Ideas of Justice in the Law-Collective Bargaining Nexus: The Case of Wage Settlement and Litigation, Paolo Tomassetti (University of Milan, Italy)
4. From Courts to Contracts: The Nexus between Strategic Litigation and Collective Bargaining, Venera Protopapa (University of Verona, Italy)
5. Regulating Transnational Collective Bargaining: Mandates, Best Practice Templates, and Incentives, Guy Mundlak (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Part II: State-Led Decentralisation of Collective Bargaining and other Forms of Hostile Legislation
6. Collective Autonomy, Party Autonomy and the Law: European and Transnational Perspectives, Ulla Liukkunen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
7. Milei's Labour Reform and the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in Argentina: A Clash with the Inter-American Protective Approach, Mauro Pucheta (University of Kent, UK)
8. Collective Bargaining and the Law: Spain as Case Study, Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Part III: The Scope and Structure of Collective Bargaining Redesigned
9. Analytical Framework for Understanding Broader-based and Sectoral Bargaining Models, Sara Slinn (York University, Canada)
10. Collective Bargaining in the USA: Union Success Within and Outside of the Flawed Legal Framework, Angela Cornell (Cornell University, USA)
11. What Difference Can the Law Really Make? 'Ascending' and 'Descending' from Enterprise-Based Bargaining in Australian Labour Law, Anthony Forsyth (RMIT University, Australia)
12. The Legal Design of the Branch Level Collective Bargaining: The Legacy of Statutory Centralism in French Labour Law, Alexis Bugada (Aix-Marseille University, France)

Über Autor(innen)

Forsyth, Anthony
Anthony Forsyth is Distinguished Professor of Workplace Law in the Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on collective bargaining, trade unions, labour hire and the gig economy. He is Vice-President of the Australian Labour Law Association and chaired the Victorian Government Inquiry into the Labour Hire Industry and Insecure Work (2015-16). He also runs the Labour Law Down Under Blog (https://labourlawdownunder.com.au/).

Tomassetti, Paolo
Paolo Tomassetti is Associate Professor at the Department of Private Law and Legal History, University of Milan, Italy.

Bugada, Alexis
Alexis Bugada is Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Aix-Marseille University, France.

Paolo Tomassetti is Associate Professor at the Department of Private Law and Legal History, University of Milan, Italy.
Alexis Bugada is Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Aix-Marseille University, France.
Anthony Forsyth is Distinguished Professor at the RMIT University School of Law, Melbourne, Australia.