Making human rights work globally / / Anthony Woodiwiss

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821058703321
• Autore: Woodiwiss Anthony
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Portland, Or., : GlassHouse, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-37619-5; 1-283-60468-X; 9786612376191; 9786613917133; 1-135-31124-2; 1-84314-533-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (149 p.)
• Disciplina: 323
• Soggetti: Human rights; Employee rights
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-129) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Making Human Rights Work Globally; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Introduction: Human rights as means; The need for a sociology of human rights; An outline of the argument; 1. Theorising a global social fact; Overcoming the reticence of sociology; Theory and the recognition of social difference; 2. International human rights and the silence concerning social difference; The birth of international human rights discourse; Making human rights enforceable; The juridification of human rights discourse; Conclusion; 3. The plural forms of labour rights and the possibility of translationLiberal democracy, socialism and labour rights; Early industrialisers; Late industrialisers; Conclusion; 4. Making human rights work in familialist societies; Reconciling familialism and human rights; Late industrialisation, familialism and the development of labour rights; Post-colonial industrialisation, familialism and labour rights; Conclusion; 5. Justiciability and the need for cosmopolitan 'core' labour standards; The construction of an Ameri-centric core; The primacy of the ethical dimension; Towards a hybrid core; The need for 'just and favourable conditions at work'Conclusion; 6.; Making labour rights justiciable in China; Human rights as an iron rice bowl; Guangdong and the 'open door'; Company law, employment law and the justiciability of labour rights; Justiciability in Guangdong Province; Workplace culture and justiciability; Conclusion; Conclusion:Making work for human rights; Postscript:10 May 2003; Appendix: The interview schedules; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many peoples lives and a central concern of sociology.