Keywords: International Association of Labour Law Journals; labour law reforms; freedom of association; anti-discrimination law; flexibility; precarious employment.
This paper aims to reconstruct the main issues debated in 2012 in
the labour law journals members of the International Association of Labour
Law Journals, concentrating the investigation on foreign journals
and leaving in the background the Italian ones, well known to the local
readers. Within the large thematic survey of these journals, firstly the authors
have chosen to stress the theme that can be considered the "topic
of the year", i.e. labour law reforms facing the economic and financial
crisis. With regard to the other subjects discussed by Iallj scholars, they
have been combined distinguishing the ones having their roots in the remote
past of labour law (focusing on freedom of association, collective
bargaining and anti-discrimination law) from those that have come on
stage more strongly in the new century (focusing on flexibility, precarious
employment and decent work); the final part of the paper opens a view
to more specific labour topics.