Editors
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1
Introduction: Recent Trends in the Hierarchy of Labour Law Sources
Tamás Gyulavári & Emanuele Menegatti
PART I
Horizontal Issues
CHAPTER 2
Recalling Some of the Historical Roots for Twenty-First Century Approaches to Regulation of the World of Work
Alan C. Neal
CHAPTER 3
The Regulatory Function of Collective Agreements in the Light of Its Relationship with Statutory Instruments and Individual Rights: A Multilevel Approach
Edoardo Ales
CHAPTER 4
Judge-Made Law in the Common Law World: A Conservative Influence on the Transformation of Labour Law by Statute
Joellen Riley Munton
CHAPTER 5
Filling the (Increasing) Gaps: The Role of Judges as Substitute Legislators in Labour Law in the Civil Law Countries
Martin Risak
CHAPTER 6
The Impact of the European Union Economic Governance on the Hierarchy of National Labour Law Sources
Emanuele Menegatti
PART II
National Reports
CHAPTER 7
Australia’s Layered and Evolving System of Labour Regulation
Andrew Stewart & Mark Bray
CHAPTER 8
The (Once) Radical Continuities of Brazil Labor Regulation
Jedidiah Kroncke
CHAPTER 9
Multilayers and Complexity of Chinese Labour Laws Sources
Dong Yan
CHAPTER 10
The Danish Struggle to Maintain the Primacy of Collective Bargaining
Christian Højer Schjøler
CHAPTER 11
The Tremendous Upheaval in Sources of Labour Law in France
Isabelle Daugareilh
CHAPTER 12
The Sources of German Labour Law
Manfred Weiss
CHAPTER 13
The Hungarian Experiment to Promote Collective Bargaining: Farewell to ‘Principle of Favour’
Tamás Gyulavári
CHAPTER 14
The Precarious Balance among Hierarchy, Coordination and Competition in the Italian System of Labour Law Sources
Iacopo Senatori
CHAPTER 15
Collective Bargaining in the Shadow of Legislation: Labour Law Sources in Poland
Lukasz Pisarczyk
CHAPTER 16
Law in Transformation: The Evolution of the System of Labour Law Sources in Russia – Tensions and Opportunities
Olga Rymkevich
CHAPTER 17
Spain: A Lasting Struggle about the Boundaries of Statutory Law and Collective Bargaining
José Maria Miranda Boto
CHAPTER 18
Sources of Labour Law in Sweden
Jenny Julén Votinius
CHAPTER 19
Collective Agreements on the Crest of the Legislative Wave, but the Common Law Still Making Ripples: The Sources of Labour Law in South Africa
Rochelle Le Roux
CHAPTER 20
The Informing Ethos Behind the Sources of UK National Labour Law
Michael Doherty & David Mangan
CHAPTER 21
Sources of Labor Law in the United States: Contract Supra Omnis
Paul Secunda
