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Labour and the Wage: A Critical Perspective
Contributor(s): Adams, Zoe (Author)
ISBN: 0198858892     ISBN-13: 9780198858898
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | Jurisprudence
- Law | Labor & Employment
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.35 lbs) 316 pages
 
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Labour and the Wage: A Critical Perspective offers a new perspective on why labour law struggles to respond to problems such as low pay and under-inclusive employment. A Marxian-inspired ontological approach sheds new light on the role of labour law in a capitalist economy and on the
limitations and potential of labour law when it comes to bringing about social change. It illustrates this through the lens of the wage.

The book develops a legal genealogy that explores the shifting portfolio of concepts through which the wage has been conceptualized in legal discourse as capitalism has developed. This exploration spans from the Norman Conquest to the present day, and covers diverse issues such as the
decasualization of the docks, sweated labour, the truck system, tax-credits, tips, and minimum wages. Labour and the Wage provides one of the most in-depth and comprehensive analyses of the wage to date, while, at the same time, shedding new light on the contradictory role, or function, of labour
law in the context of capitalism.