On the occasion of the official retirement of the eminent labour law scholar Antoine Jacobs, a number of his colleagues (themselves well-respected in the field of labour law and industrial relations) have assembled this volume of essays to manifest the breadth and variety of this great professor's work. The authors pay particular attention to the tension, always present in Jacobs' critical research, of traditional values with an acute awareness of emerging realities. He approached labour law, not merely as a series of static issues concerning workers and employers, but as an evolving discipline that persistently challenged its socio-political context. Among the wide range of issues considered in this collection--all of them prominent in Jacobs' work.