Labor and Global Justice

Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization

Foreword by Edward S. Casey Contributions by József Böröcz, Stephen Bouquin, Lefteris Kretsos, Patrick Loobuyck, Zahra Meghani, John Pearson, Franc Rottiers, Charles Umney, Ramona Vijeyarasa Edited by Mary C. Rawlinson, Wim Vandekerckhove, Ronald M. S. Commers, Tim R. Johnston

Publication date:

30 October 2014

Length of book:

236 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9780739193693

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.
This is an outstanding and timely volume, essential to understanding contemporary labor issues. It is an impressive interdisciplinary study and a critical contribution, which is a must-read for scholars and students interested in ethics and labor practices in the capitalist world economy.