This collection of essays by an internationally distinguished group of writers takes stock of what Community labour law has amounted to so far and what its directions in the future should be. It covers the foundations of EC labour law, the principal actors and the implementation of policies in such fields as health and safety, discrimination, employment, immigration and the Social Fund. The essays are written in honour of Professor Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, the distinguished labour lawyer and doyen of comparative labour law studies.

This collection offers a powerful and coherent study of the transformation of the multinational enterprise as both an object and subject of law within and beyond States. The study develops an analysis of the large firm as being a system of organization exercising vast powers through various instruments of private law, such as property rights, contracts and corporations. The volume focuses on the firm as the operational unit of governance within emerging systems of globalization, whilst exploring in-depth the forms within which the firm might be regulated as against the inhibiting parameters of national law. It connects, through the ordering concept of the firm in globalization, the distinct regimes of constitutionalization, national and international law. The study will be of interest to students and academics in globalization and the regulation of multinational corporations, as well as law, economics and politics on a global scale. It will also interest government leaders and NGOs working in the areas of MNE regulations.