Taking Vulnerabilities to Labour Exploitation Seriously
Author: Letizia Palumbo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 3031554248
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Criminality at Work
Author: Alan Bogg
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 0198836996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited by four leading law scholars, this volume explores the political and regulatory dimensions of modern 'criminality at work' from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.
Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law
Author: Hugh Collins
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0198825277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to explore the philosophical foundations of labour law in detail, including topics such as the meaning of work, the relationship between employee and employer, and the demands of justice in the workplace.
The Legal Concept of Work
Author: Zoe Adams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-02-02
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0192857770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Why do we think about some practices as work, and not others? Why do we classify certain capacities as economically valuable skills, and others as innate characteristics? What, moreover, is the role of law in shaping our answers to these questions?" These are just some of the queries explored by Zoe Adams's analysis of the legal construction, and regulation, of work. Spanning from the 14th century to the present day, The Legal Concept of Work explores how the role of law and legal concepts comes to consider some forms of human labour as work, and some forms of human labour as non-work. It examines why perceptions of these activities can change over time, and how legal constitution impacts the way in which work comes to be regulated, organised, and valued. As part of the analysis, the book presents a series of case studies, ranging from the publishing industry, academia, medicine, and retail, with a view of illustrating some of the regulatory challenges different types of work face, in the context of capitalism.
Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants
Author: Gary Craig
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781137460400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalization, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particularly vulnerable. This book explores the lives of the growing numbers of severely exploited labourers in the world today, questioning how we can respond to such globalized patterns of extreme inequality.
Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights
Author: Virginia Mantouvalou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-03-14
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0192671391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen discussing exploitation in workplaces, governments typically deploy a rhetoric of personal responsibility: they place attention on employers who take advantage of workers, or on workers who choose non-standard, precarious work arrangements. On this account, the responsibility of the state is to address the harm inflicted by private actors. This book questions that approach and develops the concept of 'state-mediated structural injustice at work': a phenomenon which manifests when legislation that has an appearance of legitimacy, in fact has very damaging effects for large numbers of people and results in structures of exploitation at work. Using a series of examples such as migrant workers, captive workers, people under welfare conditionality schemes, and other precarious workers, Mantouvalou shows how the law creates these structures of injustice, entrenching long-term, standard, and routine exploitation. She also assesses these examples against human rights principles, including civil, political, economic, and social rights. The ultimate aim of the work is to show that these structures routinely lead to workers' exploitation which may in turn give rise to state responsibility for human rights violations and to argue that there is a pressing need for reform.
How Migration Really Works
Author: Hein de Haas
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2023-12-19
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1541604326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate" (Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap). As debates on immigration have reached fever pitch, so has political and media fearmongering. But what are the facts behind the headlines? Drawing on three decades of research, migration expert Hein de Haas destroys the myths that politicians, interest groups, and media spread about immigration. He reveals: Global migration is not at an all-time high Climate change will not lead to mass migration Immigration mainly benefits the wealthy, not workers Border restrictions have paradoxically produced more migration Ultimately, de Haas shows migration not as a problem to be solved, nor as a solution to a problem, but as it really is. This book is an essential guide to one of our most divisive political issues, showing how we can move beyond today’s deeply polarized debate and make migration work better for everyone.
Economic vulnerability in different stages of life
Author: Young Håkansson, Susanna
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Published:
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9289377976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAvailable online: https://pub.norden.org/nord2024-006/ Despite well-developed welfare systems in the Nordic countries, poverty is a growing problem. More Nordic citizens face economic vulnerability today than ten years ago, and in several of the Nordic countries the gap between rich and poor has increased. The growing number of children living in poverty is particularly serious, as is the fact that many pensioners, especially women, are living in economic hardship. It is therefore necessary to consider all stages of life in order to more effectively tackle poverty. This knowledge base describes economic vulnerability through all phases of life and shows the conditions of different groups. It also addresses economic violence in different forms, the consequences for victims and the need for support structures The report has been produced by Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK) a co-operative body under the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants
Author: Gary Craig
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1137460415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalization, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particularly vulnerable. This book explores the lives of the growing numbers of severely exploited labourers in the world today, questioning how we can respond to such globalized patterns of extreme inequality.
Vulnerability and the Legal Organization of Work
Author: Martha Albertson Fineman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1315518562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses the concepts of vulnerability and resilience to analyze the situation of individuals and institutions in the context of the employment relationship. It is based on the premise that both employer and employee are vulnerable to various social, economic, and political forces, although differently so. It demonstrates how in responding to those complementary institutional relationships of employer and employee the state unequally and inequitably favors employers over employees. Several chapters included in this collection also consider how the state shapes, creates and maintains through law the social identities of employer and employee and how that legal regime operates as the allocation of power and privilege. This unique and fundamental role of the state in defining the employment relationship profoundly affects the respective abilities and degree of resiliency of actual employers and employees. Other chapters explore how attention to the respective vulnerability and resilience of those who do and those who direct work in assessing the employment relationship can raise fundamental questions of social justice and suggest new avenues for critical engagement with labor and employment law. Collectively, these pieces articulate a framework for imaging what would constitute an appropriately "Responsive State" in the employment context and how those interested in social justice might begin to use the concepts of vulnerability and resilience in their arguments.
