This new edition traces 60 years of EU employment law, from its market-based origins to its advancement of workers' social rights and protection.

Each historical stage of development of Community/Union employment law is analysed in depth chapter-by-chapter to give a sense of perspective to this fast changing area. The book addresses the challenges posed to EU employment law in the 2010s by the global economic crisis, the growth of the service economy, e-working, demographic changes, and the breakdown of traditional work relationships and methods of collective organisation. The author illustrates how the social, economic and employment imperatives of the European integration process have always been intertwined and illustrates how the gradual emergence of EU employment law from a twilight existence is best understood by exploring consistent strands of policy development.