View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by York University, Osgoode Hall Law School Osgoode Hall Law School of York University Osgoode Digital Commons Articles & Book Chapters Faculty Scholarship 2017 On Writing Labour Law History: A Reconnaissance Eric M Tucker Osgoode Hall Law School of York University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works Part of the Labor and Employment Law Commons, and the Legal History Commons Repository Citation Tucker, Eric M, "On Writing Labour Law History: A Reconnaissance" (2017). Articles & Book Chapters. 2603. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/2603 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Osgoode Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles & Book Chapters by an authorized administrator of Osgoode Digital Commons. On Writing Labour Law History: A Reconnaissance * Eric TUCKER Labour law historians rarely write about the theoretical and methodological foundations of their discipline. In response to this state of affairs, this article adopts a reconnaissance strategy, which eschews any pretense at providing a synthesis or authoritative conclusions, but rather hopes to open up questions and paths of inquiry that may encourage others to also reflect on a neglected area of scholarship. It begins by documenting and reflecting on the implications of the fact that labour law history sits at the margins of many other disciplines, including labour history, legal history, labour law, industrial relations and law and society, but lacks a home of its own.