Employment Law (Clarendon Law Series) - Softcover

Collins, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198763867 ISBN 13: 9780198763864

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2003

Synopsis

This addition to the Clarendon Law Series offers a fresh approach to the law governing employment relations, emphasising the contemporary policy themes of social inclusion, competitiveness, and the rights of citizenship in the workplace. It acts as a succinct and accessible overview for those new to the subject as well as an excellent summary for students. Employment Law covers all the main areas of the subject including anti-discrimination laws, trade unions and industrial action, contracts of employment and human rights in the workplace. It also discusses how UK law, under the influence of EC law and international protection of human rights, has been transformed for the twentieth-first century by pursuing new goals such as helping to achieve a better balance between work and life, to improve the competitiveness of business through partnership institutions, and to provide superior protection for the basic rights of employees in the workplace. Offering frequent and illuminating comparisons with the law of other countries, including the United States, Professor Collins also discusses the effectiveness of employment regulation as well as examining the different national and transnational methods available.

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Review

Review from previous edition This exposition and defense of Peirce's views on truth is clear, well organized, and largely nontechnical. It interacts with a good deal of the recent literature relevant to pragmatism and truth. (P. K. Moser, Choice)

Cheryl Misak has written a clear sensible, and mercifully concise account of a Peircean conception of truth ... an extremely stimulating and thought-provoking book, well worth reading, and sure to generate fruitful discussion in years to come. (Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society)

the book offers a sustained discussion and is informative concerning ways of understanding Peirce's views on truth. (Review of Metaphysics)

It is good to have a lucid, intelligent, and accurate account of Peirce's pragmatic theories of truth and inquiry. Cheryl Misak's book provides us with such an account. It is also good to see Peirce's theory of truth presented sympathetically in relation to his general theories of logic and metaphysics. Misak's book does this too. It deals authoritatively with Peirce's more general philosophical position, and shows clearly how Peirce's theory of truth is related to it. The book is one which every student of American pragmatism should own. Cheryl Misak's book is a lucid and well-researched and -presented account of Peirce's pragmatism. As such it is welcome. It is clearly written, and I, for one, have learnt a great deal from reading it. (Canadian Journal of Philosophy)

provocative little book ... As one would expect, it provides suggestive hypotheses about Peirce and challenging philosophical arguments ... the enthusiasm she exhibits for discovering Peirce actively engaged with a topic that is currently vital and controversial is refreshing (The Philosophical Review)

Within the expanding volume of scholarly works on the writings of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, Cheryl Misak's study should gain a solid place ... This book will be particularly interesting to Peirce scholars who want to explore Peirce's views on truth or who are following new contributions to this study. Yet since the writing style is very accessible..., and since the book examines a number of topics pursued by Peirce, it will also be useful as an introduction to Peirce's philosophy. (Dialogue)

From the Back Cover

C..S. Pierce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that truth is what we would agree upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. In this book Cheryl Misak argues for and elucidates the pragmatic account of truth, paying attention both to Peirce's text and to the requirements of a suitable account of the truth. In her account, the correspondence theory of truth is rejected, yet relativism is avoided and the principle of bivalence is preserved, albeit in unusual way.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198763867
• ISBN 13: 9780198763864
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292