Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-industrial Justice - Couverture rigide

Dukes, Ruth; Streeck, Wolfgang

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 150954898X ISBN 13 : 9781509548989

Editeur : Polity Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

This eloquent call for a reimagining and renewal of the institutional and material conditions of freedom of association and the reinvention of industrial democracy will be crucial reading for anyone interested in work in the twenty-first century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 150954898X
• ISBN 13: 9781509548989
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 180
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• Personne responsable: non disponible