Structural injustice and workers' rights

Structural injustice and workers' rights / Virginia Mantouvalou.

"When discussing exploitation in the workplace, 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 st...

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Main Author: Mantouvalou, Virginia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford labour law.
Subjects:
Labor laws and legislation.
Social justice.
Power (Social sciences)
Social rights.
Labor laws and legislation
Social justice
Social rights
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I: WHAT IS STRUCTURAL INJUSTICE?
  • Introduction: Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights
  • Structures of Injustice at Work
  • Structural Injustice
  • The Story of Sandy
  • The Story of Marcell
  • The Role of the Law
  • State-Mediated Structures of Injustice
  • PART II: ILLUSTRATIONS OF STATE-MEDIATED STRUCTURAL INJUSTICE
  • Migrant Workers
  • Temporary Labour Migration
  • Domestic Workers
  • Agricultural Workers
  • Undocumented Workers
  • Captive Workers
  • Prison Work
  • Unpaid Work as a Community Sentence
  • Work in Immigration Detention
  • Welfare-to-Work
  • Welfare-to-Work and Poverty
  • From Unemployed Poor to Working Poor: Clustering Disadvantage
  • Welfare Conditionality in the United Kingdom
  • In-Work Poverty and Welfare Conditionality
  • Welfare-to-Work and Structures of Injustice
  • Precarious Workers
  • Agency Workers
  • A 'legal no man's land'
  • Zero-Hours Contracts
  • Care Workers
  • PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS
  • Human Rights I
  • State Responsibility in Human Rights Law
  • Other Agents with Political Responsibility
  • Human Rights Law and State-Mediated Structures of Exploitation
  • Migrant Workers
  • Forced labour
  • Private life, labour inspections, and health and safety
  • Equality, human rights, and immigration
  • Wages and social security
  • Captive Workers
  • Working prisoners
  • Unpaid work as a community sentence
  • Working immigration detainees
  • Human Rights II
  • Working and Exploited Poor
  • Forced Labour
  • Right to Work
  • Prohibition of Inhuman and Degrading Treatment
  • The Right to a Subsistence Minimum and the Right to Social Assistance
  • The Right to Private Life
  • Non-Discrimination
  • Intersectional discrimination
  • Organising.

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