Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work: The Duality of Individual Rights by Lizzie Barmes
This empirical study of the interaction between law, adjudication and conflicts about behaviour at work argues that individual employment rights have a Janus-faced quality, simultaneously challenging and sustaining existing distributions of power between management and employees. The central finding is that labour and equality rights, as currently legislated, implemented and enforced in the UK, overall enhance the status-quo by supporting a good deal of traditional workplace hierarchy and marginalizing more plural, collective workplace ways of being.