Abstract

Exploring the critical analysis on labour law with regard to some key topics recurring throughout its evolution, the author focuses on some new theories and corresponding practices in the field of organisational and social innovation as basic features of the so-called learning society. Within this rhetorical framework great emphasis is put on activation polices and as well as on the pursuing of wellbeing as a concept that is at turns identified as personal, organisational and social. Though disclosing new scenarios for labour law, these trends may also trigger inequalities and social exclusion, so that post-modern labour law scholars will presumably have to deal with innovative issues while coping with some unresolved questions of the past.