The Capability Approach To Labour Law

Author : Brian Langille
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192573100

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The Capability Approach to Labour Law by Brian Langille Pdf

Forty years ago Amartya Sen introduced to the world a novel approach to the idea of equality: the notion of 'basic capability' as 'a morally relevant dimension' and the claim that we should focus upon equality of basic capabilities ('a person being able to do certain basic things'). These ideas, as developed by Sen and Martha C. Nussbaum, have launched an academic armada now proceeding under the flag of the 'capability approach' (CA). While that flag has ventured far and wide and engaged many areas of inquiry, this volume of essays is the first to explore how CA might shed light upon labour law. The capabilities approach can illuminate our understanding of labour law across three dimensions. Part I looks at the nature of the basic relationship between CA and labour law-do they share common ground or disagree about what is important? Can the CA provide a normative 'foundation' for labour law? Part II goes further by examining the relationship of the CA and other well-established perspectives on labour law, including economics, history, critical theory, restorative justice, and human rights. Part III examines the possible relevance of the CA to a range of specific labour law issues, such as freedom of association, age discrimination in the workplace, trade, employment policy, and sweatshop goods.

Author : Supriya Routh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317910664

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Enhancing Capabilities through Labour Law by Supriya Routh Pdf

In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need to ensure appropriate employment and income, rights at work, and effective social protection in informal economic activities. Such a call by the ILO is urgent in the context of countries such as India, where the majority of workers are engaged in informal economic activities, and where expansion of informal economic activities is coupled with deteriorating working conditions and living standards. This book explores the informal economic activity of India as a case study to examine typical requirements in the work-lives of informal workers, and to develop a means to institutionalise the promotion of these requirements through labour law. Drawing upon Amartya Sen’s theoretical outlook, the book considers whether a capability approach to human development may be able to promote recognition and work-life conditions of a specific category of informal workers in India by integrating specific informal workers within a social dialogue framework along with a range of other social partners including state and non-state institutions. While examining the viability of a human development based labour law in an Indian context, the book also indicates how the proposals put forth in the book may be relevant for informal workers in other developing countries. This research monograph will be of great interest to scholars of labour law, informal work and workers, law and development, social justice, and labour studies.

Author : Hugh Collins,Gillian Lester,Virginia Mantouvalou
Publisher : Philosophical Foundations of L
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198825272

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Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law by Hugh Collins,Gillian Lester,Virginia Mantouvalou Pdf

The first book to explore the philosophical foundations of labour law in detail, including topics such as the meaning of work, the relationship between employee and employer, and the demands of justice in the workplace.

Author : Guy Davidov,Brian Langille
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191621888

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The Idea of Labour Law by Guy Davidov,Brian Langille Pdf

Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. This crisis has an obvious external dimension - labour law is attacked for impeding efficiency, flexibility, and development; vilified for reducing employment and for favouring already well placed employees over less fortunate ones; and discredited for failing to cover the most vulnerable workers and workers in the "informal sector". These are just some of the external challenges to labour law. There is also an internal challenge, as labour lawyers themselves increasingly question whether their discipline is conceptually coherent, relevant to the new empirical realities of the world of work, and normatively salient in the world as we now know it. This book responds to such fundamental challenges by asking the most fundamental questions: What is labour law for? How can it be justified? And what are the normative premises on which reforms should be based? There has been growing interest in such questions in recent years. In this volume the contributors seek to take this body of scholarship seriously and also to move it forward. Its aim is to provide, if not answers which satisfy everyone, intellectually nourishing food for thought for those interested in understanding, explaining and interpreting labour laws - whether they are scholars, practitioners, judges, policy-makers, or workers and employers.

Author : Hanna Falk Erhag,Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson,Therese Rydberg Sterner,Ingmar Skoog
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030780630

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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing by Hanna Falk Erhag,Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson,Therese Rydberg Sterner,Ingmar Skoog Pdf

This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.

Author : Ingrid Robeyns
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783744244

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Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice by Ingrid Robeyns Pdf

How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. Ingrid Robeyns offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpretation, arguing that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking. This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach, new readers looking for an interdisciplinary introduction, and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach.

Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521003857

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Women and Human Development by Martha C. Nussbaum Pdf

Martha Nussbaum proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international.

Author : Flavio Comim,Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107015692

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Capabilities, Gender, Equality by Flavio Comim,Martha C. Nussbaum Pdf

Provides unique reflections on the capability approach and its relevance to new human development policies and political liberalism.

Author : Flavio Comim,Mozaffar Qizilbash,Sabina Alkire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521862876

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The Capability Approach by Flavio Comim,Mozaffar Qizilbash,Sabina Alkire Pdf

The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and philosophical attractiveness, it has been less easy to measure or to translate into policy. This volume addresses these issues in the context of poverty and justice. Part I offers a set of conceptual essays that debate the strength of the often misunderstood individual focus of the capability approach. Part II investigates the techniques by which we can measure and compare capabilities, and how we can integrate them into poverty comparisons and policy advice. Finally, Part III looks at how we can apply the capability approach to different regions and contexts. Written by a team of international scholars, The Capability Approach is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students concerned with the debate over the value of the capability approach and its potential applications.

Author : Ralf Rogowski,Robert Salais,Noel Whiteside
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781001172

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Transforming European Employment Policy by Ralf Rogowski,Robert Salais,Noel Whiteside Pdf

Since the mid 1990s, the focus of European employment and social policy has shifted from protection to promotion. This book provides a timely analysis of this new form of governance, and the new forms of policy delivery and audit which accompany it. The limitations of the current approach became particularly apparent during the financial crisis of 2008, and it has now reached a turning point. The book offers a new coherent European reform agenda that views easing transitions in employment and promoting the development of individual and collective capabilities as cornerstones. The contributing authors focus on vocational training, life course policies, reflexive labour law and social insurance, from theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives. Transforming European Employment Policy will be of great benefit to policymakers as well as those researching or studying European law, labour law, industrial relations, political science, social policy or international business.

Author : Klaus Schneider
Publisher : Klaus Schneider
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782959973369

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From Employability Towards Capability by Klaus Schneider Pdf

Author : Supriya Routh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317910671

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Enhancing Capabilities through Labour Law by Supriya Routh Pdf

In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need to ensure appropriate employment and income, rights at work, and effective social protection in informal economic activities. Such a call by the ILO is urgent in the context of countries such as India, where the majority of workers are engaged in informal economic activities, and where expansion of informal economic activities is coupled with deteriorating working conditions and living standards. This book explores the informal economic activity of India as a case study to examine typical requirements in the work-lives of informal workers, and to develop a means to institutionalise the promotion of these requirements through labour law. Drawing upon Amartya Sen’s theoretical outlook, the book considers whether a capability approach to human development may be able to promote recognition and work-life conditions of a specific category of informal workers in India by integrating specific informal workers within a social dialogue framework along with a range of other social partners including state and non-state institutions. While examining the viability of a human development based labour law in an Indian context, the book also indicates how the proposals put forth in the book may be relevant for informal workers in other developing countries. This research monograph will be of great interest to scholars of labour law, informal work and workers, law and development, social justice, and labour studies.

Author : Serena Olsaretti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199645121

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The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice by Serena Olsaretti Pdf

Distributive justice has come to the fore in political philosophy: how should we arrange our social and economic institutions so as to distribute benefits and burdens fairly? Thirty-eight leading figures from philosophy and political theory present specially written critical assessments of the key issues in this flourishing area of research.

Author : Melanie Walker,Elaine Unterhalter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230604810

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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education by Melanie Walker,Elaine Unterhalter Pdf

This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The book looks particularly at questions concerning the education of children, gender equality, and higher education. Contributors hail from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Mexico.

Author : Antoanneta Potsi
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Early childhood education
ISBN : 3631665296

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The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Curricula by Antoanneta Potsi Pdf

The book explores the potential of the Capability Approach as an alternative critical lens to early childhood education curricula. It investigates pre-primary teachers' beliefs and practices and discusses issues that are likely to be confined and to provoke reflections to several national contexts.