1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451144303321

Autore

Brodie Douglas <1960->

Titolo

A history of British labour law, 1867-1945 / / Douglas Brodie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2003

ISBN

1-4725-6284-4

1-281-04181-5

9786611041816

1-84731-298-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

344.410109034

Soggetti

Collective labor agreements - Great Britain - History

Industrial relations - Great Britain - History

Labor laws and legislation - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Labour Law 1867-1880 -- 2. Labour Law 1880-1900 -- 3. 1900-1914 -- 4. Responding to Taff Vale -- 5. The Impact of War 1914-18 -- 6. The Aftermath of War 1918-21 -- 7. Labour Law Between the Wars -- 8. The Impact of the Second World War -- 9. Concluding Remarks -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In the UK the received wisdom has tended to be that,historically, British labour law was abstentionist or non-interventionist, best epitomised by the words of Lord Wedderburn who has written that '...collective bargaining has developed in a system which depends very little on the law, which is covered by very few decisions of the judges, and which is controlled by statute very little, if at all.'. It is not until we reach the Industrial Relations Act 1971 that we discover the first attempt in peacetime to move to a legally regulated system. However, the accuracy of this non-interventionist depiction appears to very much depend on the period which is examined, which is why an historical perspective is needed in order to understand the significance of the current shape and scope of British labour law. The aim of this work is to re-examine the received interpretation by looking at both the role



given to law, and that anticipated and argued for it, during the most formative period of its development, the period between 1867 and 1945. The book also revisits the debate about war-time legislation which has tended to be viewed as standing apart from mainstream labour law but which the author demonstrates to have important linkages to the past and present."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455478003321

Titolo

The canon in the history of economics : critical essays / / edited by Michalis Psalidopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-65349-2

0-429-23224-1

1-280-33547-5

0-203-45281-X

0-203-26305-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 28

Altri autori (Persone)

PsalidopoulosM (Michals)

Disciplina

330/.09

Soggetti

Economics - History

Social sciences - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the Third European Conference on the History of Economics (ECHE), held at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, 17-19 April 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the canon in the history of economics and its critique; The Mediterranean trajectory of Aristotle's economic canon; The idea of usury in Patristic literature; Self-interest as an acceptable mode of human behaviour; Deconstructing the canonical view on Adam Smith: a new look at the principles of economics; The 'canonical' model of economic growth in



the debate between Ricardo and Malthus; In defence of a traditional canon: a comparison of Ricardo and Rau

Cracking the canon: William Stanley Jevons and the deconstruction of 'Ricardo'Who blushes at the name: John Kells Ingram and minor literature; In search of a canonical history of macroeconomics in the interwar period: Haberler's Prosperity and Depression revisited; Preobrazhensky and the theory of economic development; Canon and heresy: religion as a way of telling the story of economics; The neo-classical synthesis in the Netherlands: a demand and supply analysis; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book represents the first critical attempt to incorporate the question of the canon in the history of economics into contemporary scholarly debate. It discusses how the canon is formed, perpetuated, interpreted and re-interpreted.