Professor Ruth Dukes

Professor of Labour Law (Law)

telephone: 01413306306
email: Ruth.Dukes@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 211, Ground Level, 7 Professors Square

Biography

Ruth Dukes is Professor of Labour Law and Deputy Director of Research in the School of Law. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an emeritus member of the Young Academy of Scotland. Since 2024, she is Vice President of the Institute of Employment Rights. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Labour Law Research Network, the Adapt International Scientific Committee, the Project Board of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, and the Editorial Board of the Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal.

Professor Dukes joined the University of Glasgow in 2005 having graduated from the University of Edinburgh, the Humboldt University in Berlin and the London School of Economics. In 2011/12 she was an Early Career Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. In 2022, she was the Innis Christie Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University in Canada. From 2018 until 2023, she held a European Research Council Starting Grant which funded the project Work on Demand: Contracting for Work in a Changing Economy.

Dukes is the author of The Labour Constitution: the Enduring Idea of Labour Law (Oxford University Press 2014) and, with Wolfgang Streeck, Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice (Polity 2023).

In recent years, she has been invited to give the Hugo Sinzheimer Lecture in Frankfurt, the annual Centre of Law and Society lecture in Cardiff, and plenary addresses at the LLRN Conference in Warsaw, the Marco Biagi Conference in Modena and the Adapt International Conference in Bergamo.

Research interests

Ruth Dukes’ research interests lie in the field of labour law, particularly collective labour law, and theories and systems of worker representation. She has published widely on trade union law, theories of labour law, employee information and consultation, and British, German and European labour history. She is known in particular for her work on the ‘founding fathers’ of the discipline of labour law: Hugo Sinzheimer, Otto Kahn-Freund, and Lord Wedderburn.

Working in collaboration with Wolfgang Streeck, Ruth is currently leading a project on Class Conflict and Institutional Change: Otto Kahn-Freund (1900-1979) and the Invention of Labour Law. The project investigates the invention of labour law as a distinct field of legal doctrine and scholarship. Invention and reinvention are understood here as ongoing processes, scholarly and political, involving the defence of existing institutions and the development of new ones. Employing the lens of the life and work of Otto Kahn-Freund (1900-1979), the project considers developments spanning the short twentieth century, from the end of the first world war to the struggle over the second postwar settlement in the 1970s and thereafter. Following Kahn-Freund, labour law scholarship is conceived as an interdisciplinary endeavour, combining insights from legal theory, the sociology of law, political economy, and empirically-oriented industrial relations. In particular, the project addresses two questions: How was legal scholarship on the conflict between capital and labour related to both contemporary history and simultaneous developments in the social sciences, and what may be learned from this today?

From 2018 until 2023, Ruth held a European Research Council Starting Grant for a project called Work on Demand: Contracting for Work in a Changing Economy. Working with a team of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, she sought to analyse the ever-evolving nature of contracts and contracting behaviour in the world of work – not only contracts of employment, but also those of casual, ‘zero-hours’, and self-employed workers. For further information and publications see: https://workondemand.co.uk/

In 2014, a 5-year research project partly funded by the AHRC resulted in publication of The Labour Constitution: the Enduring Idea of Labour Law (Series: Oxford Monographs on Labour Law, OUP 2014). The project was conceived as a contribution to scholarly debates on the so-called crisis in labour law. Building on earlier work on the scholarship of Kahn-Freund and Sinzheimer, and combining historical, legal and socio-legal analysis, it sought to make the case for the continued relevance of foundational texts to the study of labour law today. In the course of doing so, it provided original accounts of the history of labour law and industrial relations in Germany, the UK, and the European Union, and an extended analysis of different approaches to study of the field.

The Labour Constitution: The Enduring Idea of Labour Law

Runner-up of the SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize 2016

Read the Reviews and Awards of the book on the OUP webpages

Publications

Selected publications

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2014) The Labour Constitution: The Enduring Idea of Labour Law. Series: Oxford monographs on labour law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199601691 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199601691.001.0001)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Streeck, Wolfgang (2022) Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice. Polity Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781509548989

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2019) The economic sociology of labour law. Journal of Law and Society, 46(3), pp. 396-422. (doi: 10.1111/jols.12168)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Streeck, Wolfgang (2020) Labour constitutions and occupational communities: social norms and legal norms at work. Journal of Law and Society, 47(4), pp. 612-638. (doi: 10.1111/jols.12254)

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2009) Otto Kahn-Freund and collective Laissez-Faire: an edifice without a keystone? Modern Law Review, 72(2), pp. 220-246. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2009.00741.x)

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Number of items: 71.

2025

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2025) Sociology of labour law and the economy. Journal of Law and Society, (Accepted for Publication)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2025) Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg by Peter Ackers [London: Routledge, 2024, 239 pp, ISBN 9781032422099]. Industrial Law Journal, 54(1), pp. 199-201. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwaf001)[Book Review]

2024

Doorey, David J. and Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2024) What is Human Resources law? Industrial Law Journal, (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwae047) (Early Online Publication)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Kirk, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6281-9850 (2024) Legal change and legal mobilisation: what does strategic litigation mean for workers and trade unions? Social and Legal Studies, 33(4), pp. 479-500. (doi: 10.1177/09646639231204942)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2024) Das Streikrecht im Vereinigten Königreich: eine Tragödie in vier Akten? Soziales Recht, 14(3), pp. 78-84.

Cornell, Angela B. and Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2024) Strikes and the struggle for democracy. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, (Accepted for Publication)

Coutu, Michel, Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Murray, Gregor (2024) Labour law and industrial relations: towards a renewal? Revue Relations Industrielles = Industrial Relations, 78(4), (doi: 10.7202/1111504ar)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Kirk, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6281-9850 (2024) Industrial relations and labour law: recovery of a shared tradition? In: Hodder, Andy and Mustchin, Stephen (eds.) The Value of Industrial Relations: Contemporary Work and Employment in Britain. Bristol University Press: Bristol, pp. 103-113. ISBN 9781529236958 (doi: 10.51952/9781529236972.ch009)

2023

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Streeck, Wolfgang (2023) Labour law after neoliberalism? Journal of Law and Society, 50(2), pp. 165-184. (doi: 10.1111/jols.12423)

2022

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Streeck, Wolfgang (2022) Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice. Polity Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781509548989

Carolan, Jane, Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Kirk, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6281-9850 (2022) Decent work in Scotland – a charter for change. In: Gall, Gregor (ed.) A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society. Pluto Press: London, pp. 160-170. ISBN 9780745345062 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv2k4fx0w.20)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2022) The politics of method in the field of labour law. In: Bartl, Marija, Cebulak, Pola and Lawrence, Jessica (eds.) The Politics of European Legal Research: Behind the Method. Series: Elgar Studies in Legal Research Methods. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 45-59. ISBN 9781802201185

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2022) Authoritarian liberalism: a labour law perspective. European Law Open, 1(1), pp. 150-157. (doi: 10.1017/elo.2022.5)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2022) On demand work as a legal framework to understand the gig economy. In: De Stefano, Valerio, Durri, Ilda, Stylogiannis, Harry and Wouters, Mathias (eds.) A Research Agenda for the Gig-Economy and Society. Series: Elgar research agendas. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781800883505

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Kirk, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6281-9850 (2022) Trade Unions, strategic litigation and legal mobilisation in the UK: a research agenda. In: Senatori, Iacopo and Spinelli, Carla (eds.) Litigation (Collective) Strategies to Protect Gig Workers' Rights: a Comparative Perspective. Series: Fondazione Marco Biagi (15). G. Giappichelli: Torino. ISBN 9788892167490

2021

Bertolini, Alessio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3173-0607 and Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2021) Trade unions and platform workers in the UK: worker representation in the shadow of the law. Industrial Law Journal, 50(4), pp. 662-688. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwab022)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941, Ioannou, Gregoris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3837-4721 and Kirk, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6281-9850 (2021) Special issue, work on demand: editorial introduction. Industrial Law Journal, 50(4), pp. 503-505. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwab023)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Streeck, Wolfgang (2021) Post-industrial justice: normativity and empiricism in a changing world of work. In: van Seters, Paul (ed.) The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick. Series: Anthem companions to sociology. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781785278259

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Streeck, Wolfgang (2021) From social norms to legal norms: regulating work in post-neoliberal political economies. In: Kaneff, Deema and Endres, Kirsten W. (eds.) Explorations in Economic Anthropology. Berghahn Books, pp. 134-144. ISBN 9781800731394

Ioannou, Gregoris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3837-4721 and Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2021) Anything goes? Exploring the limits of employment law in UK hospitality and catering. Industrial Relations Journal, 52(3), pp. 255-269. (doi: 10.1111/irj.12329)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2021) A forward-looking history of the German works constitution. Rechtsgeschichte, 29, pp. 373-375. (doi: 10.12946/rg29/373-375)[Book Review]

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2021) Il lavoro e la costituzione. In: Caruso, Corrado and Valentini, Chiara (eds.) Grammatica del Costituzionalismo. Il Mulino. ISBN 9788815294227

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Kirk, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6281-9850 (2021) Law, economy and legal consciousness at work. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 72(4), pp. 741-770.

2020

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Streeck, Wolfgang (2020) From Industrial Citizenship to Private Ordering? Contract, Status, and the Question of Consent. MPIfG Discussion Paper 20/13. Discussion Paper. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

Bogg, Alan and Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2020) Statutory interpretation and the limits of a human rights approach: Royal Mail Group Ltd v Communication Workers Union. Industrial Law Journal, 49(3), pp. 477-492. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwaa013)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2020) The liberal socialist tradition in UK labour law. In: Bogg, A., Rowbottom, J. and Young, A.L. (eds.) The Constitution of Social Democracy. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509916573

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2020) Regulating gigs. Modern Law Review, 83(1), pp. 217-228. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12485)

2019

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2019) The economic sociology of labour law. Journal of Law and Society, 46(3), pp. 396-422. (doi: 10.1111/jols.12168)

Christodoulidis, Emilios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4516-9665, Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Goldoni, Marco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7774-2393 (Eds.) (2019) Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory. Series: Research handbooks in legal theory. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. ISBN 9781786438881

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2019) Critical Labour law: then and now. In: Christodoulidis, Emilios, Dukes, Ruth and Goldoni, Marco (eds.) Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781786438881

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2019) Insiders, outsiders and conflicts of interest. In: Ashiagbor, Diamond (ed.) Re-Imagining Labour Law for Development: Informal Work in the Global North and South. Hart. ISBN 9781509913152

2018

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2018) From the labour constitution to an economic sociology of labour law. Jurisprudence, 9(2), pp. 418-423. (doi: 10.1080/20403313.2018.1451443)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2018) Introduction to Special Issue, Labour Laws and Labour Markets: New Methodologies. Social and Legal Studies, 27(4), pp. 407-413. (doi: 10.1177/0964663918758514)

2017

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2017) Identifying the purposes of labour law: Discussion of Guy Davidov's A Purposive Approach to Labour Law. Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, 16(1), pp. 52-67. (doi: 10.1093/jrls/jlx017)

Bogg, Alan and Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2017) Article 11 ECHR and the right to collective bargaining: Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union v Boots Management Services Ltd. Industrial Law Journal, 46(4), pp. 543-565. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwx012)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2017) Otto Kahn-Freund: A Weimar Life. Modern Law Review, 80(6), pp. 1164-1177. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12307)

Doorey, D. and Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2017) Labour law and its last generation. In: Archer, S., Drache, D. and Zumbansen, P. (eds.) The Daunting Enterprise of the Law: Essays in Honour of Harry W. Arthurs. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 9780773548909

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2017) International labour rights: legitimising the international legal order? University of Toronto Law Journal, 67(4), pp. 544-568. (doi: 10.3138/utlj.67.4)

2016

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Cannon, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412 (2016) The role of social partners. In: Bogg, Alan, Costello, Cathryn and Davies, A.C.L. (eds.) Edward Elgar Research Handbook on European Labour Law. Series: Research handbooks in European law series. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 89-113. ISBN 9781783471119

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Kountouris, Nicola (2016) Pre-strike ballots, picketing and protest: banning industrial action by the back door? Industrial Law Journal, 45(3), pp. 337-362.

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2016) Conflict and the crisis in labour law. In: Kjaer, Poul F. and Olsen, Niklas (eds.) Critical Theories of Crisis in Europe: From Weimar to the Euro. Series: Reinventing Critical Theory. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9781783487455

Bogg, A. and Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2016) The contract of employment and collective labour law. In: Freedland, M. (ed.) The Contract of Employment. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780191826191 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198783169.003.0005)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2016) Costello, C. and Freedland, M. (eds.), Migrants at Work: Immigration & Vulnerability in Labour Law. Modern Law Review, 79(3), pp. 519-523. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12196)[Book Review]

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2016) A. Bogg., C. Costello, A.C.L. Davies, and J Prassl (eds.); The Autonomy of Labour Law. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 37(1), pp. 223-229. [Book Review]

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2016) ¿Una constitución laboral global? = [A global labor constitution?]. Derecho y critica social, 2(2), pp. 195-235.

2015

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2015) Wedderburn and the theory of labour law: building on Kahn-Freund. Industrial Law Journal, 44(3), pp. 357-384. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwv015)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941, Novitz, Tonia and Bogg, Alan (2015) Legislative Comment: pre-strike ballots and the Trade Union Bill 2015: denying workers the right to strike? Employment Law Bulletin, 129, pp. 2-4.

2014

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2014) Review of Moore, S., McKay, S. and Veale, S.; Statutory Regulation and Employment Relations: The Impact of Statutory Trade Union Recognition. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 2014(35), pp. 214-216. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2014.35.10)[Book Review]

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2014) A Global Labour Constitution? Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 65,

2013

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Bogg, A. (2013) The European social dialogue: from autonomy to here. In: Countouris, N. and Freedland, M.R. (eds.) Resocializing Europe in a Time of Crisis. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107041745 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781107300736.028)

2012

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2012) Systems of employee representation at the enterprise: UK report. In: Blanpain, R., Nakakuo, H. and Araki, T. (eds.) Systems of Employee Representation at the Enterprise: A Comparative Study. Series: Bulletin of comparative labour relations (81). Kluwer. ISBN 9789041140807

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Christodoulidis, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4516-9665 (2012) Habermas and the European social dialogue: deliberative democracy as industrial democracy? International Union Rights Journal, 18(4), pp. 20-21.

2011

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2011) The right to strike under UK law: something more than a slogan? Industrial Law Journal, 40(3), pp. 302-311. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwr012)

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2011) The Constitutional Function of Labour Law in the European Union. In: Walker, N, Tierney, S and Shaw, J (eds.) Europe's Constitutional Mosaic. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781841139791

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2011) Hugo Sinzheimer and the constitutional function of labour law. In: Davidov, G. and Langille, B. (eds.) The Idea of Labour Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199693610

2010

Dukes, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2010) The Right to Strike Under UK Law: Not Much More than a Slogan? Industrial Law Journal, 39(1), pp. 82-91.

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Christodoulidis, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4516-9665 (2010) Dialogue & Debate: Labour, Constitution and A Sense of Measure: A Debate with Alain Supiot. Social and Legal Studies, 19(2), pp. 217-252.

2009

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2009) The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition, Alan Bogg: Review. Modern Law Review, 73(4), pp. 691-693. [Book Review]

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2009) Douglas Brodie, 'The Contract of Employment': Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 13(1), pp. 153-154. (doi: 10.3366/E1364980908001108)[Book Review]

2008

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2008) Constitutionalizing Employment Relations: Sinzheimer, Kahn-Freund and the Role of Labour Law. Journal of Law and Society, 35(3), pp. 341-363. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2009.00741.x)

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2008) Consultation with workers. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. (eds.) New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199290543

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2008) The Statutory Recognition Procedure 1999: No Bias in Favour of Recognition? Industrial Law Journal, 37(3), pp. 236-267. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwn010)

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2008) Voluntarism and the Single Channel: the Development of Single Channel Worker Representation in the UK. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 24(1), pp. 87-121.

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2008) Works councils. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. (eds.) New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199290543

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2008) Book Review: P. Davies and M. Freedland, Towards a Flexible Labour Market (OUP 2007). Social and Legal Studies, 17(2), pp. 287-289. [Book Review]

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2008) Codes of Practice in Employment Law. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. (eds.) The New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, p. 150. ISBN 978-0199290543

2007

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2007) The ICE Regulations. Pre-Existing Agreements and Standard Provisions: a Warning to Employers. Industrial Law Journal, 36(3), pp. 329-340.

2005

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2005) The Origins of the German System of Worker Representation. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 19, pp. 31-62.

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Articles

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2025) Sociology of labour law and the economy. Journal of Law and Society, (Accepted for Publication)

Doorey, David J. and Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2024) What is Human Resources law? Industrial Law Journal, (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwae047) (Early Online Publication)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2024) Das Streikrecht im Vereinigten Königreich: eine Tragödie in vier Akten? Soziales Recht, 14(3), pp. 78-84.

Cornell, Angela B. and Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2024) Strikes and the struggle for democracy. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, (Accepted for Publication)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Streeck, Wolfgang (2023) Labour law after neoliberalism? Journal of Law and Society, 50(2), pp. 165-184. (doi: 10.1111/jols.12423)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2022) Authoritarian liberalism: a labour law perspective. European Law Open, 1(1), pp. 150-157. (doi: 10.1017/elo.2022.5)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2020) Regulating gigs. Modern Law Review, 83(1), pp. 217-228. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12485)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2019) The economic sociology of labour law. Journal of Law and Society, 46(3), pp. 396-422. (doi: 10.1111/jols.12168)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2017) Otto Kahn-Freund: A Weimar Life. Modern Law Review, 80(6), pp. 1164-1177. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12307)

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2016) ¿Una constitución laboral global? = [A global labor constitution?]. Derecho y critica social, 2(2), pp. 195-235.

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2014) A Global Labour Constitution? Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 65,

Dukes, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2010) The Right to Strike Under UK Law: Not Much More than a Slogan? Industrial Law Journal, 39(1), pp. 82-91.

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2005) The Origins of the German System of Worker Representation. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 19, pp. 31-62.

Books

Dukes, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 and Streeck, Wolfgang (2022) Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice. Polity Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781509548989

Book Sections

Book Reviews

Dukes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7515-0941 (2009) The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition, Alan Bogg: Review. Modern Law Review, 73(4), pp. 691-693. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Research Reports or Papers

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Grants

Professor Dukes has been awarded several grants and fellowships including the following:

2024

With Julieta Lobato (as Researcher), an International Fellowship from the British Academy (£226,228).

2021

With Michel Coutu (University of Montreal), a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant ($67,343) to fund research on the New Labour Constitution.

2020

With Dr Gregoris Ioannou (as Researcher), a Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellowship (c. €200,000).

2017

A Starting Grant (€1.42 million) from the European Research Council to finance a major five-year project: Work on Demand: Contracting for Work in a Changing Economy (WorkOD).

2011

An Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellowship for research on the Constitutional Function of Labour Law (£65,675).

Supervision

Research students under supervision

Saddington, Neil
Algorithmic Management: A proposed method for navigating a contested domain
Zhang, Qingqin
Workplace surveillance and protecting of worker’s privacy in the UK and China

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