“Labour” is a term that is ceasing to have salience as the descriptor of a class, movement, scholarly or professional domain or field of public policy. Consequently, it becomes increasingly difficult to mobilize working people for political or industrial action or even to defend their legal rights and claim their legal entitlements. Perhaps, then, the future of labour law is to become what in an historical counterfactual it might always have been: “the law of economic subordination and resistance”. Such a reframing of labour law might have many advantages.