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The continuing programme of discussion of ‘regulating for decent work’1 offers an opportunity to describe some work which I have been doing in recent years on the topic of the ‘legal construction of personal work relations’ in collaboration with Nicola Kountouris (Freedland and Kountouris 2011), and to suggest how that work might make a small contribution to a wide-ranging discussion of the idea of ‘regulating for decent work’. This imposes a large responsibility to consider in depth the role which the ‘legal construction of personal work relations’ has to play in the continuing drama of ‘regulating for decent work’. If I attempt to do that in the course of this chapter, the attempt is coupled with a reminder that the ‘legal construction of personal work relations’ is not and cannot be any more than a minor aspect of the whole business of ‘regulating for decent work’.
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Freedland, M. (2014). Regulating for Decent Work and the Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations. In: McCann, D., Lee, S., Belser, P., Fenwick, C., Howe, J., Luebker, M. (eds) Creative Labour Regulation. Advances in Labour Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137382214_3
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