Structural injustice and workers' rights / Virginia Mantouvalou.
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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford labour law.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | 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 the heavy focus on individual responsibility for precarious work and develops the concept of 'state-mediated structural injustice at work'. We observe this when legislation that has an appearance of legitimacy has effects that are very damaging for large numbers of people, constituting a major cause of structures of exploitation at work. The book uses a series of examples, such as migrant workers, captive workers, people under welfare conditionality schemes and other precarious workers, to show how the law creates structures of injustice, making exploitation long-term, standard and routine. It also assesses these examples against human rights principles - both civil and political and economic and social rights. The aim of the book is to show that both the overall structures and parts of those structures routinely lead to workers' exploitation that may give rise to state responsibility for human rights violations, and that there is a pressing need for reform. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 186 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0192857150 9780192857156 0191947938 9780191947933 0192671383 9780192671387 0192671391 9780192671394 |