PERSPECTIVES ON WORK - INTRODUCTION

The effects of economic liberalization are making it necessary to reth ink the question of work. To manage the transformation of work, the au thor advocates a multidisciplinary approach to the social sciences wit h linkage to law. This is the basic idea underlying the contributions in this issue of the Review: some look at work from historical, anthro pological and philosophical perspectives, while others analyse ''the n ew boundaries of wage employment'' or conjecture on tomorrow's labour law. Work is part of both our material and our social lives. Its legal status cannot, therefore, be reduced to ''a matter of human resource engineering''.