Labor and Global Justice

Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization

Mary C. Rawlinson, Wim Vandekerckhove, Ronald M. S. Commers, Tim R. Johnston

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780739193709
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Labor and Global Justice: Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice. Through its multidisciplinary, transnational approach and its engagement with public policy, the contributors advance urgent contemporary debates around work and clearly demonstrate the necessity of articulating the rights of labor to any global ethics or to any concept of global justice. Together, the chapters make evident why justice requires, both theoretically and practically, a rethinking and rearticulation of the relation between labor and capital.

Framing the theoretical and practical question of justice in a new way, the editors have gathered addresses scholars across multiple disciplines, including philosophy, international relations, and the social sciences. As the volume emphasizes the connection between the concept of justice and real public policy, it also appeals to human rights workers and labor organizers, as well as those who make the public policies that establish the relation between labor and capital, just or unjust, and that determine the well-being of workers, for good or ill.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Putting Labor on the Global Justice Agenda
• Meaningful Work
• Laboring with Others
• Trade Unionism and Theories of Global Justice
• The Collapse of State Socialism in the “Soviet Bloc” and Global Labor Migration
• Labor Migration and Justice
• Justice for the “Other” Caregivers
• Hidden Data, Hidden Victims
• Resistance to Work and at the Workplace
• Global Justice Norms versus Interest Representation?
• Strike, Protest, Occupy, and Vote
• Index
• About the Editors and the Contributors