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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463529303321

Titolo

Labor and global justice : essays on the ethics of labor practices under globalization / / edited by Mary C. Rawlinson [and three others] ; foreword by Edward S. Casey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-0309-8

0-7391-9370-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

174

Soggetti

Labor and globalization - Moral and ethical aspects

Labor market - Moral and ethical aspects

Employee rights

Social justice

Industrial relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Putting Labor on the Global Justice Agenda; 2 Meaningful Work; 3 Laboring with Others; 4 Trade Unionism and Theories of Global Justice; 5 The Collapse of State Socialism in the "Soviet Bloc" and Global Labor Migration; 6 Labor Migration and Justice; 7 Justice for the "Other" Caregivers; 8 Hidden Data, Hidden Victims; 9 Resistance to Work and at the Workplace; 10 Global Justice Norms versus Interest Representation?; 11 Strike, Protest, Occupy, and Vote; Index; About the Editors and the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Labor and Global Justice</span><span> combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice and to make clear how justice requires a rethinking of the relation between labor and global capital.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>