New perspectives on the public-private divide / / edited by the Law Commission of Canada

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822368503321
• Autore: Law Commission of Canada
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Vancouver : , : UBC Press, , 2003; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-283-33059-8; 9786613330598; 0-7748-5057-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 192 pages)
• Collana: Legal dimensions series, , 1701-2317
• Disciplina: 342.71
• Soggetti: Public law - Canada; Civil rights - Canada
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- There's Only One Worker: Toward the Legal Integration of Paid Employment and Unpaid Caregiving -- Private Needs and Public Space: Politics, Poverty, and Anti-Panhandling By-Laws in Canadian Cities -- Private Life: Biotechnology and the Public-Private Divide -- Invasions of Publicity: Digital Networks and the Privatization of the Public Sphere -- Green Revolution or Greenwash? Voluntary Environmental Standards, Public Law, and Private Authority in Canada -- The Emergence of Parallel Identity-Based Associations in Collective Bargaining Relations -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The separation between public and private spheres has structured much of our thinking about human organizations. Scholars from nearly all disciplines use the notion of a public-private divide as a means to order knowledge and better understand the mechanisms that govern and shape human behaviour and institutions. In legal and socio-legal analysis, the distinction informs the differences between state and non-state actors and between public good and private property. This rich collection of essays explores how the public-private divide influences, challenges, and interacts with law and law reform. Through ; various case studies, the contributors reflect on this complex dichotomy's role in structuring the socio-legal environment for the personal, social, economic, and governance relationships of citizens. They demonstrate that while the split between the public and the private is a useful way to understand the world, it is always only an ideological construct, and as such open to challenge. Of primary interest to legal thinkers and practitioners, this volume will also hold sway with sociologists, historians, and political scientists with an interest in the nature of the public-private distinction, and its role in law and society.