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Remote Work and Labor Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2025

Julia López López
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

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Print publication year: 2026
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Remote Work and Labor Institutions

This volume shows how remote work is regulated by a holistic set of arrangements that govern all forms of employment, weaving together labor institutions in complex ways that the book presents and explains. The scholarship assembled here examines the handling of remote work through institutional analysis cutting across national cases and focusing on both fundamental rights and regulatory challenges. The rights that are examined – by analyzing their interaction with employer powers – include privacy, equality and non-discrimination as well as collective rights and the distribution of responsibilities in the workplace. The book shows how the location of work interacts with new technologies redefining the universe of labor relations and the institutional system governing employment. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Julia López López is Senior Researcher of Consolidated Group (GREDiTSS, UPF). Her main research topics are collective labor rights, fundamental labor rights, gender equality and social protection and solidarity. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters and books including Inscribing Solidarity: Debates in Labor Law and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Collective Bargaining and Collective Action: Labour Agency and Governance in the 21st Century? (Hart, 2019).

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