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Labor and Global Justice: Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice. Through its multidisciplinary, transnational approach and its engagement with public policy, the contributors advance urgent contemporary debates around work and clearly demonstrate the necessity of articulating the rights of labor to any global ethics or to any concept of global justice. Together, the chapters make evident why justice requires, both theoretically and practically, a rethinking and rearticulation of the relation between labor and capital.
Framing the theoretical and practical question of justice in a new way, the editors have gathered addresses scholars across multiple disciplines, including philosophy, international relations, and the social sciences. As the volume emphasizes the connection between the concept of justice and real public policy, it also appeals to human rights workers and labor organizers, as well as those who make the public policies that establish the relation between labor and capital, just or unjust, and that determine the well-being of workers, for good or ill.
Contents
Foreword: Laboring in the Darkness of Global Justice, Edward S. Casey
Introduction, Wim Vandekerckhove
Part I. No Justice without Labor
Chapter 1. Putting Labor on the Global Justice Agenda: The Juggernaut of Capital Accumulation
and the Global Assault on Labor Standards, Ronald M.S. Commers
Chapter 2. Meaningful Work: Labor, Gender, and Justice after Globalization, Mary C. Rawlinson
Part II. Citizenship, Democracy, and Global Justice
Chapter 3. Laboring with Others, Franc Rottiers
Chapter 4. Trade Unionism and Theories of Global Justice, John Pearson
Chapter 5. The Collapse of State Socialism in the 'Soviet Bloc' and Global Labor Migration,
József Böröcz
Part II. Justice across Borders?
Chapter 6. Labor Migration and Justice: An Analysis of the Labor Migration Policy of the
European Union, Patrick Loobuyk
Chapter 7. Justice for the "Other" Caregivers: Addressing the Epistemic Dimension of Injustice,
Zahra Meghani
Chapter 8. Hidden Data, Hidden Victims: Trafficking in the Context of Globalisation and Labor
exploitation—The Case of Vietnam, Ramona Vijeyarasa
Part III. Laboring for Global Justice: The Role of Labor in Achieving Social Equity Under Globalization
Chapter 9. Resistance To Work and at The Workplace: A Blind Spot For French Sociology Of
Work?, Stephen Bouquin
Chapter 10. Global Justice Norms Versus Interest Representation? British Unions and
International Solidarity, Charles Umney
Chapter 11. Strike, Protest, Occupy, and Vote: Austerity Politics and Resistance to Neoliberal
Social Engineering in Greece, Lefteris Kretsos
