1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996321840703316

Titolo

Sign systems studies / / University of Tartu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tartu, : Tartu University Press, 1998-

ISSN

1736-7409

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

401.41

Soggetti

Semiotics

Sleep Wake Disorders

Linguistique

Sémantique

Publications périodiques

Semiotik

Semiotiek

Periodical

Periodicals.

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974770903321

Autore

Woodiwiss Anthony

Titolo

Making human rights work globally / / Anthony Woodiwiss

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.