Abstract

The author offers a wide and very articulated reflection on the most recent evolution of individual and collective labour law and related doctrine and practice. The crisis and decline of neo-liberal economics, which considered labour nothing but a commodity whose cost is submitted to the interest of the undertaking, opens new perspectives as regards the “valueµ of labour. On one side, the permanent relevance of the collective representation of labour’s interests is affirmed: generally, and in conclusion the author arguments the enduring value of labour rights as a fundamental of freedom rights.