Because labour and social security issues have arisen in many disparate ways since the inception of the European Communities, there has been no consistent classification of European law in this area. This book attempts to rectify this situation.
On the occasion of the official 'retirement' of the eminent labour law scholar Antoine Jacobs, a number of his colleagues - themselves well-respected in the field of labour law and industrial relations - have assembled this volume of essays to manifest the breadth and variety of this great professor's work.