1The origins of modern employment law
Aims and Objectives
After reading this chapter you should be able to:
- ■ Understand where regulation of employment practices originated
- ■ Understand the very different patterns of work that emerged with the growth of industrialism
- ■ Understand how and why as a result more specific regulation developed in the wake of the Industrial Revolution both by statute and through the common law
- ■ Understand how and why employment protection through legislation emerged in the twentieth century
- ■ Understand the reasons for advances and reductions in employment rights in the modern employment context
- ■ Be able to critically appreciate the historical development of laws on employment
1.1 The origins of the regulation of ...
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