Global Justice, Labor Standards and Responsibility
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Yossi Dahan
In this Article we propose an analytical framework for allocating responsibility for the protection of worker’s rights in the global labor market. Since production and services have expanded globally, and the state’s ability to protect worker’s rights on the national level has been undermined, the main challenge today is to find the appropriate institutional arrangements that allocate responsibility in a manner that realizes basic labor standards. The Article argues that in the context of a global labor market, responsibility should be perceived in terms of "shared responsibility," whereby responsibility is shared by a complex network of agents and institutions that take part in global production and services. Within these global social networks and connections, labor relations generate a unique type of social connection which implies a special type of commitment and obligation towards workers. We propose four principles to guide the allocation of responsibility for remedying the unjust conditions of workers in the world, based on measures of connectedness (between people in joint activity), capacity (to relieve workers’ hardship), benefit (from the unjust conditions), and contribution (to bringing the hardship about).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Introduction
- Transnational Labor Regulation and the Limits of Governance
- Global Justice, Labor Standards and Responsibility
- In Defense of Soft Law and Public-Private Initiatives: A Means to an End? -- The Malaysian Case
- Private Environmental Governance in Hard Times: Markets for Virtue and the Dynamics of Regulatory Change
- Transnational Governance as the Layering of Rules: Intersections of Public and Private Standards
- Private Environmental Governance as Ensemble Regulation: A Critical Exploration of Sustainability Indexes and the New Ensemble Politics
- The Efficacy of Regulation as a Function of Psychological Fit: Reexamining the Hard Law/Soft Law Continuum
- Signaling Virtue? A Comparison of Corporate Codes in the Fields of Labor and Environment
- The ISO 26000 International Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility: Implications for Public Policy and Transnational Democracy
