Democracy At Work - Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice - Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice

"In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and fragmented. What are the consequences of this? How should we respond? Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck argue that the time is ripe to restate the principles of industrial democracy and citizenship for the post-industrial era. Considering developments within political economy, employment relations and labour law since the postwar decades, they trace the rise of globalization and the 'dualization' of labour markets--the emergence of a core and periphery of workers--and the progressive insulation of working relations from democratic governance. What these developments amount to, they argue, is an urgent need for political intervention to tame the new world of 'gigging' and other forms of highly precarious work. This, according to the authors, will require far-reaching institution-building designed to fill legal concepts such as 'employment' with political substance."--

List of contents

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Justice, Productivity and Power at Work

3. The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship

4. Liberalization as Emancipation?

5. Post-Industrial Justice?

References

About the author

Ruth Dukes is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Glasgow.
Wolfgang Streeck is a Senior Research Associate and former Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.

Product details

• Authors: Dukes, R Dukes, Ruth Dukes, Ruth Streeck Dukes, Dukes Ruth, Wolfgang Streeck, Streeck Wolfgang
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781509548996
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-4899-6
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour