Ruth Dukes, THE LABOUR CONSTITUTION Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), 2014. xii+244 pp. ISBN 9780199601691. £60.
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| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2015.0310 |
| Published date | 01 September 2015 |
| Date | 01 September 2015 |
| Pages | 432-434 |
Reading this research monograph filled some gaps in my knowledge of labour law developments in the early part of the twentieth century, especially the developments occurring in Germany. It covers in detail the academic works, the political thoughts, and the political activities of two of the major writers of the first half of the century: Hugo Sinzheimer and Otto Kahn-Freund. Chapters 2 and 3 on Sinzheimer's place in, and aspirations for, the Weimar Republic as its constitution was written and as that constitution began to be lived in practice were of particular interest. In the end, it seems that it is Sinzheimer's ambitious placing of labour law within his ideal (nation state) constitution that Dukes finds attractive and would like to reclaim as a useful idea for the twenty-first century. I agree that it is a very attractive idea, however I fear it is also an idea that faces a set of practical problems when it comes to implementation that are as difficult now as they were in Sinzheimer's time. What Dukes states explicitly is not that the labour constitution is a workable plan for any current nation...
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