Book review: Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era: The Regulatory Challenges
| Date | 01 December 2018 |
| Published date | 01 December 2018 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1388262718819512 |
| Subject Matter | Book reviews |
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pointing out possible alternatives’. Based on everything contained in the book, it seems that the
goals set by the authors have been achieved.
Paid Work Beyond Pension Age – Comparative Perspectives is an important book for all those
who are interested in social policy, employment and labour law, old age and ageing and social
inequalities. It is not designed for members of the academic community alone, but it reaches a
wider circle of readers where it resonates with the search for many answers that come from actual
questions about paid work beyond pensionable age. To conclude, the book provides a valuable
contribution both to the theory of social policy and to the theory of labour law. It will certainly be
used as a reference point for future work on paid work beyond pension age.
Author biography
Filip Bojic´ is a Lecturer in Labour Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. His interests
include social security law, especially in the area of unemployment insurance and old-age
insurance.
Howe, Joanna and Owens, Rosemary (eds.), Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era: The
Regulatory Challenges, Oxford (GB) / Portland (Or.): Hart Publishing, 2016, 427 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-50990-628-4 (hardcover).
Reviewed by: Primoˇz Rataj, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
DOI: 10.1177/1388262718819512
Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era: The regulatory Challenges appears in the On˜ati
International Series in Law and Society, which publishes volumes of original research and theory
on the relations between law, legal institutions and social processes based on workshops held at the
International Institute for the Sociology of Law in On˜ati, Spain. The books are eclectic in their
discipline, methodologies and theoretical perspectives, but they are all comparative in their scope.
This is certainly true for the reviewed book, edited by Joanna Howe (a Senior Lecturer) and
Rosemary Owens (a Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Adelaide in Australia.
This collection is based on papers presented at a workshop held in June 2015. It contains 18
contributions written by 23 contributors, who include university academics in the fields of law,
economics, sociology, business and migration, and researchers from national confederations of
employees, and examines a very delicate political and legal issue, namely how to regulate tem-
porary labour migration in an era of globalisation.
Globalisation, commonly understood as the intensification of international economic integra-
tion, has provided the perfect vehicle for accelerating and facilitating temporary labour migration.
Facilitated by technological developments and information and communication revolutions, glo-
balisation has, through trade liberalisation, gained momentum through the progressive opening up
of national economies, thereby allowing...
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