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Labour's Many Constitutions (and Capital's Too)
Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy
  • Eric Tucker, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
Research Paper Number
6/2012
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Keywords
  • Constitutionalization,
  • Labour rights,
  • political economy
Abstract

In recent years there has been an outpouring of popular and scholarly writing on the constitutionalization of labour rights. In this paper I seek to add to this literature in three ways. First, at a conceptual level I unpack two important dimensions of labour rights, their thickness and their hardness. Second, in order to comprehend the multiplicity of sites at which efforts to entrench labour rights are being made, I map them out on a geographic scale. I observe that as the geographic scale of labour rights expands, they become thinner and softer. Third, I emphasize the need to analyze the constitutionalization of labour rights against the backdrop of other constitutionalization project, particularly the effort to constitutionalize the rights of capital.

Citation Information
Eric Tucker. "Labour's Many Constitutions (and Capital's Too)" (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ericm_tucker/21/