VOLUME 23


ISSUE 1

EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES

An Introduction to the Regulation of Leasing and Employment Agencies
Matthew W. Finkin and Sanford M. Jacoby

The Regulation of Public and Private Employment Agencies in Australia: An Historical Perspective
Anthony O'Donnell and Richard Mitchell

Temporary Agency Work in France
Christophe Vigneau

Employee Leasing in Germany: The Hiring Out of an Employee as a Temporary Worker
Peter Schueren

Targeting on Transitions:  Employment Services in the Netherlands
Els Sol

Temporary Work and Employment Agencies in Spain
Miguel C. Rodriguez-Pinero Royo

The Legal Regulation of Employment Agencies and Employment Leasing Companies in Sweden
Birgitta Nystroem

EUROPEAN UNION DEVELOPMENTS

The Free Movement of Persons within the European Union:  Moving from Employment Rights to Fundamental Rights?
Mark Jeffery

BOOK REVIEWS

Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America, Maria Victoria Murillo
reviewed by Mark Anner

Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California, edited by Ruth Milkman
reviewed by Bruce Nissen

On-line Rights for Employees in the Information Society:  Use and Monitoring of E-mail and Internet at Work, edited by Roger Blanpain
reviewed by Paul Roth

 


ISSUE 2
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WORKERS' PRIVACY

Preface

PART I:  INTRODUCTION

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy:  Introduction
Mark Jeffery

PART II:  NATIONAL STUDIES

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy: The Brazilian Law
Roberto Fragale Filho and Joaquim Leonel de Rezende Alvim

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy: The English Law
Mark Jeffery

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy: The French Law
Christophe Vigneau

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy: The German Law
Hans-Joachim Reinhard

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy: The Italian Law
Claudia Faleri

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy: The Spanish Law
Javier Thibault Aranda

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy: The United States Law
Matthew W. Finkin

PART III:  RECURRING QUESTIONS OF COMPARATIVE LAW

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy:  Regulatory Techniques
Christophe Vigneau

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy:  Public and Private Regulation
Claudia Faleri

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy:  Enforcement
Hans-Joachim Reinhard

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy:  The Role of Worker Representatives
Javier Thibault Aranda

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy:  Notice and Consent
Roberto Fragale Filho and Mark Jeffery

Information Technology and Workers' Privacy:  Old and New Paradigms
Roberto Fragale Filho and Joaquim Leonel de Rezende Alvim

PART IV:  THE COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT

Menschenbild: The Conception of the Employee as a Person in Western Law
Matthew W. Finkin

 

ISSUE 3

In Memoriam Professor Marco Biagi

Roger Blanpain

Alan C. Neal and Manfred Weiss

 

NATIONAL STYLE IN LABOR LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP

Preface

LABOR LAW

An Introduction to National Style in Labor Law Scholarship
Matthew W. Finkin

Canada

National Traditions in Labor Law Scholarship: The Canadian Case
H.W. Arthurs

Europe

Labor Law Scholarship in France, Germany, and Italy:  Some Remarks on a Difficult Question
Rolf Birk

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Labor Law?
Miguel Rodriguez-Pinero Royo

National Styles in Labor Law and Social Science Scholarship:  A Personal View
Roger Blanpain

Japan

Labor Law Scholarship in Japan
Takashi Araki

Was the Modern Labor Law Accepted in Postwar Japan?
Tadashi Hanami

Latin America

Teaching Labor Law in Latin American Universities
Luis Aparicio-Valdez and Juan Raso-Delgue

United Kingdom

National Styles in Labor Law Scholarship: The United Kingdom
Paul Davies and Mark Freedland

United States

Reflections on the Declining Prestige of American Labor Law Scholarship
Cynthia Estlund

American Labor Law Scholarship--Some Comments
Clyde W. Summers

The Marginalization of Academic Labor Law in the United States:  A Footnote to Estlund and Summers
Matthew W. Finkin

The Social Sciences

Social Science in Europe, Japan, and the United States
Sanford M. Jacoby

Do the Social Sciences Shape Corporate Anti-Discrimination Practice?:  The United States and France
Frank Dobbin

Scientific Knowledge Production in the United States and Germany:  The Case of Industrial Relations Research
Carola M. Frege

Are There "National Styles" of Social Science and Labor Scholarship?:  Reflections on Industrial Relations Research in Japan
Michio Nitta

CAPSULE REVIEWS


ISSUE 4

ARTICLES

Toward Social Realism in the Americas
Adelle Blackett

"Foreign to the Competence of Courts" Versus "One Law for All":  Labor Arbitrators' Powers and Judicial Review in the United States and Canada
David A. Wright

A Comparative Analysis of the Law Regulating Employment Arbitration Agreements in the United States and Canada
John-Paul Alexandrowicz

SYMPOSIUM

Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn's At Home and Abroad:  U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective

Introduction to Symposium
Sanford M. Jacoby

Labor Institution, Risk Sharing, and Wage Inequality:  A Comment on Blau and Kahn
David Marsden

Review Essay
Berndt Keller

Reply to Berndt Keller and David Marsden
Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn