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Oxford Labour Law

Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights

Mantouvalou, Virginia (Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law, Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law, University College London)

Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights

Oxford Labour Law

Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights

Oxford Labour Law: Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights

 

This book seeks to identify structures that trap workers in conditions of exploitation. It focuses specifically on 'state mediated structural injustice', where legislative schemes that promote otherwise legitimate aims create inadvertent vulnerabilities for workers.


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Beschrijving Oxford Labour Law: Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights

When 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.


ISBN
9780192857156
Pagina's
208
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Serie
Oxford Labour Law
NUR
740
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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