# Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights - Portail Universitaire du droit

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> Description : structural injustice and workers' rights, présentation de l'éditeur when discussing exploitation in workplaces, governments typically deploy a rhetoric ...

## Parution

- **ISBN** : 978-0-192-85715-6
- **Éditeur** : Oxford University Press

## Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
Virginia Mantouvalou, Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law, University College London
 
Sommaire
PART I: WHAT IS STRUCTURAL INJUSTICE?
1:Introduction: Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights2:Structures of Injustice at Work
PART II: ILLUSTRATIONS OF STATE-MEDIATED STRUCTURAL INJUSTICE
3:Migrant Workers4:Captive Workers5:Welfare-to-Work6:Precarious Workers
PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS
7:Human Rights I8:Human Rights II9:Epilogue


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2023-03-10

## Tags

Droit du travail, Droit privé, Droit social, Droits de l'homme, Justice, Responsabilité

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