The Capability Approach to Labour Law

Brian Langille, Professor, University of Toronto

Brian Langille is a professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto. His work examines how we think about labour law and he is currently working on an ongoing project addressing 'The Capability Approach to Labour Law', of which this volume of essays is an essential part.

Introduction: The Capability Approach to Labour Law-Why Are We Here?, Brian Langille
Part I: The Capability Approach and Labour Law: Fundamental Questions
1. What Can Sen's Capability Approach Offer to Labour Law, Hugh Collins
2. The Capability Approach and Labour Law: Identifying the Areas of Fit, Guy Davidov
3. Labor Law and the Capabilities Approach, Martha C. Nussbaum
4. Is the Capability Theory an Adequate Normative Theory for Labour Law?, Riccardo Del Punta
5. The Need to Become Fashionable, Supriya Routh
6. 1. What is Labour Law? Implications of the Capabilities Approach, Brian Langille
Part II: The Capability Approach to Labour Law from Other Disciplinary Perspectives
7. The Capability Approach and the Economics of Labour Law, Simon Deakin
8. Labor History and the Clash of Capabilities, Laura Weinrib
9. Capabilities, Utility, or Primary Goods? On Finding a Conceptual Framework for (International) Labour Law, Pascal McDougall
10. Work, Human Rights, and Human Capabilities, Virginia Mantouvalou
11. Capabilities Approaches and Labour Law through a Restorative Regulatory Lens, Bruce P. Archibald
Part III: The Capability Approach to Labour Law and Important Labour Law Controversies
12. The Constitution of Capabilities: The Case of Freedom of Association, Alan Bogg
13. Capabilities and Age Discrimination, Pnina Alon-Shenker
14. (Re)Imagining the Trade-Labour Linkage: The Capabilities Approach, Clair Gamage
15. Freedom in Work and the Capability Approach: Towards a Politics of Freedoms for Labour?, Robert Salais
16. Capabilities, Contract, and Causality: The Case of Sweatshop Goods, Lyn K. L. Tjon Soei Len