Labor law is a highly dynamic and complex field which can be properly understood only in its broader international and historical context. Labour Law, a work increasingly cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts, provides a comprehensive analysis of current British labor law which explains the role of different legal sources, as well as social and economic policy, in its development. It thus enables readers to obtain a deeper insight into likely future, as well as past, changes in the law. The new edition, while following the broad pattern of previous editions, highlights important new developments in the areas of the contract of employment, dismissal and discrimination law, EU law, employee representation, human rights, 'family-friendly' policies and industrial action law.