Full Description
Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth & Post-Productive Work Approaches engages with new socioeconomic ideas that look beyond the current growth-driven competitive market economy. Building on analysis of economic growth, as well as the limits of the logic of human productivity and competitivity for workers and the environment, it explores alternative approaches and what those will mean for work in general, and labour law in particular.
The concept of 'post-growth' is used to rethink the purpose of the economy by looking beyond merely increasing wealth, consumption, and production, considering what this means for the position of work in society as well as the individual worker. The post-productive work approach is used to question the centrality of economically productive work and its regulation in labour laws. The chapters in this book take a progressive approach and discuss whether and how labour law can contribute to the emancipation of work from the constraints of growth and productivity by revisiting the value, organization, and impact of work. With these utopian ideas for labour law, the contributions in this book present inspirational 'dots on the horizon' that could guide the direction of changes in labour law as it navigates issues such as the implementation of digital and green solutions, the energy crisis, migration, rising inequality, and precariousness.
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Contents
1: Nicolas Bueno, Beryl ter Haar, and Nuna Zekic: Labour Law Beyond Growth and Productivism: An Introduction
2: Brian Langille: The Coast of (Labour Law's) Utopia
3: Beryl ter Haar: Economic Paradigm Shifts for Labour Law
4: Nuna Zekic: Labour Law for Degrowth and Meaningful Work
5: Rodrigo Carelli: First Lines for an Ecological Labour Law: A Social Utopia for the Anthropocene
6: Surya Deva and Pushkar Anand: A Global South Perspective on Labour Rights and Supply Chains for a Post-Growth World
7: Nicolas Bueno: Including the Non-Economic Value of Work in Labour Law
8: Paolo Tomassetti: Labour Law and the Utopia of the Commons
9: Rafael Encinas de Muñagorri: Labour Law for Care and Wellbeing
10: Einat Albin: Channelling Technologies to Benefit Employees via Labour Law
11: Alexander De Becker and Flore Claus: Social Security and the Right to Laziness Beyond just Basic Income
12: Sergio Gamonal C.: Utopia, Power, and Free Labour
13: Elise Dermine and Daniel Dumont: Conclusion: Utopias for an Ecological Social Law and How to Get There
