\u003cp\u003eIn the United States and worldwide, the âlabor questionâ has recrudesced. Old issues have resurged, sometimes in altered guise. New issues have emerged. Both test the twentieth century's solutions. This work explores the arc of labor law in the United States up to the changes that have reordered business and employment at the century's turn â the resurgence of old issues in new dress and the emergence of new issues, of which the deployment of technologies â roboticization and computerization â has been the catalyst. It closes on the issues labor law is facing in the twenty-¬first century, including the imponderable of yet a new need to address the de¬finition of citizenship.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author's thorough coverage of the relevant terrain draws on social and legal history, and also on the current wealth of economic studies across the range of such pressing issues as the following:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ wages;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ precarity of work;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ employee representation;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ health and safety;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ job discrimination;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ employee mobility;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ privacy;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ job displacement;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ anti-retaliation;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ wrongful dismissal;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ accelerating use of automation, robotization, and computerization;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ segmentation and polarization of the labor market;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ ¬ ssurization of jobs;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ labor segmentation and polarization;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ union implosion; and\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eâ privatization of law.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a critical moment when the various strands of all these issues are becoming intertwined, this hugely informative book elucidates how labor law stands today in the United States, and by extension in many other countries.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a necessary background for comparative engagement with economic change. Because the developments it deals with are global, this is critical reading for policy makers, academics, students, and an enlightened public to put what is happening in larger historical context as seen from the paradigm neoliberal economy and its legal institutions.\u003c/p\u003e
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