"The chapters in this volume were first presented at a conference entitled Oxford Labour Law: Past, Present, Future held at St. John's College, Oxford, in July 2012."--page v.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exploring autonomy / Alan Bogg, Cathryn Costello, ACL Davies and Jeremias Prassl -- Otto Kahn-Freund, the contract of employment and the autonomy of labour law / Mark Freedland -- Contractual autonomy / Hugh Collins -- Labour law and the trade unions : autonomy and betrayal / Alan Bogg -- Common law confusion and empirical research in labour law / Lizzie Barmes -- Evaluating the reflexive turn in labor law / Diamond Ashiagbor -- Autonomous concepts in labour law? : The complexities of the employing enterprise revisited / Jeremias Prassl -- Uses and misuses of 'mutuality of obligations' and the autonomy of labour law / Nicola Countouris -- Migrants and forced labour : a labour law response / Cathryn Costello -- Labour law as public law / ACL Davies.

Equality law : labour law or an autonomous field? / Sandra Fredman -- Labour law as human rights law : a critique of the use of 'dignity' by Freedland and Kountouris / Christopher McCrudden -- The EU internal market and domestic labour law : looking beyond autonomy / Phil Syrpis and Tonia Novitz -- Labour law as the law of the business enterprise / Alice Carse and Wanjirue Njoya -- Conceptualizing the employer as fiduciary : mission impossible? / Jill Murray -- Efficiency arguments for the collective representation of workers : a sketch / Paul Davies -- Labour law on the plateau : towards regulatory policy for endogenous norms / Deirdre McCann.

Introduction.