The contract of employment / edited by Alan Bogg (Professor of Labour Law, University of Oxford) [and 6 others] ; Mark Freedland (General Editor) (Emeritus Professor of Employment Law, University of Oxford).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. THE GENERAL PART - STRUCTURES AND THEMES -- 1. General Introduction - aims, rationale, and methodology /Mark Freedland -- 2. The Legal Structure of the Contract of Employment /Mark Freedland -- 3. The Exchange Principle and the Wage-Work Bargain /Mark Freedland and Simon Deakin -- 4. The Relationship between the Contract of Employment and Statute /ACL Davies -- 5. The Contract of Employment and Collective Labour Law /Alan Bogg and Ruth Dukes -- 6. The Autonomy of the Common Law of the Contract of Employment from the General Law of Contract /Douglas Brodie -- 7. Relational Contracts /Douglas Brodie -- 8. The Contract of Employment and the Remedial Dimension /Lizzie Barmes -- 9. Human Rights and the Contract of Employment /Hugh Collins and Virginia Mantouvalou -- 10. Fragmenting Work, Fragmented Regulation: The Contract of Employment as a Driver of Social Exclusion /Einat Albin and Jeremias Prassl -- 11. The Contract of Employment and Gendered Work /Sandra Fredman and Judy Fudge -- 12. The Contract of Employment, Corporate Law, and Labour Income /Wanjiru Njoya -- 13. Developments in Contract of Employment Jurisprudence in Other Common Law Jurisdictions: A Study of Australia /Joellen Riley -- 14. A Comparative Reflection from Canada: A Good Faith Perspective /Claire Mummé -- PART II. THE SPECIFIC PART - AREAS AND DOCTRINES -- 15. The Definition of the Contract of Employment and its Differentiation from Other Contracts and Other Work Relations /Joellen Riley -- 16. Employees, Employers, and Beyond: Identifying the Parties to the Contract of Employment /Jeremias Prassl and Einat Albin -- 17. The Contract of Employment as an Expression of Continuing Obligations /Nicola Countouris -- 18. Formation of the Contract of Employment /Simon Deakin -- 19. Illegality, Public Policy, and the Contract of Employment /Alan Bogg -- 20. Terms Inserted into the Contract of Employment by Legislation /ACL Davies -- 21. The Content of Contracts of Employment: Terms Incorporated from Collective Agreements or from Other Sources /Astrid Sanders -- 22. Implied Terms in the Contract of Employment /Hugh Collins -- 23. Variation and Suspension of the Contract of Employment and its Terms /Nicola Countouris and Astrid Sanders -- 24. Duration, Lawful Termination, and Frustration of the Employment Contract /David Cabrelli -- 25. The Wrongful Termination of the Contract of Employment /Alan Bogg and Mark Freedland -- 26. The Effect of Termination upon Post-Employment Obligations /David Cabrelli -- 27. Intellectual Property and the Contract of Employment /Jeremias Prassl -- 28. Remedies for Breach and Wrongful Dismissal /Lizzie Barmes -- 29. The Contract of Employment in its International and European Law Setting /Louise Merrett.

"The Contract of Employment provides the most ambitious and comprehensive treatise on the theoretical and doctrinal aspects of the English contract of employment in the common law world. Under the general editorship of Professor Mark Freedland, the text has been produced by a team of world leading experts in employment law. Part I examines the theoretical context to the contract of employment, studying its structure and development from a wide variety of theoretical and comparative perspectives. Part II provides an exposition and analysis of the doctrinal aspects of the contract of employment." --Publisher's website.