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The traditional legal textbooks aim to give students of the law a synoptic overview of the present state of law in a particular area. In doing so, most books offer only a cursory assessment of how the law came to be the way it is and what economic, political and social forces were brought to bear during its evolution. This study seeks to offer students a different kind of text, which takes as its starting point the law as it was in 1945. Guiding the student through four-and-a-half decades of almost continuous legislative activity, Davies and Freedland show how the law was created, and why it looks as it does today. The history explored is from 1945 to 1990, but not including the period since Mr Major succeeded Mrs Thatcher as Prime Minister. Paul Davies is also the editor of the ""Industrial Law Journal"". Mark Freedland has also written ""The Contract of Employment"" and ""Labour Law, Cases and Materials"" (with Paul Davies).

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There is no doubt that in this work [the authors] have made an important and original contribution to the literature both of labor law and the wider subject of the processes by which government policies are developed and implemented.... --he Law Quarterly Review Fascinating, clear, well-written. --C. Barnard, University of Southampton

There is no doubt that in this work [the authors] have made an important and original contribution to the literature both of labor law and the wider subject of the processes by which government policies are developed and implemented.... --he Law Quarterly Review<br> Fascinating, clear, well-written. --C. Barnard, University of Southampton<br>

"""There is no doubt that in this work [the authors] have made an important and original contribution to the literature both of labor law and the wider subject of the processes by which government policies are developed and implemented....""--he Law Quarterly Review""Fascinating, clear, well-written.""--C. Barnard, University of Southampton"

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