Labour Law and the Gender of Work

Fostering Solidarity by Accomodating Individuals
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4610-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice

Care work is essential. And yet, Western capitalist societies are organised in a way as to neglect care work and make it invisible.

Building on feminist critiques of labour law, this book analyses how private care work has been socially constituted as the Other in relation to work on labour markets. By bringing labour law, with its collective structures, into conversation with individual anti-discrimination law, it develops a solidaristic form of labour law that includes unpaid care work.

It shows how the law can be used to challenge collective organisations’ understandings of work in order to integrate and accommodate the Other of labour law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kocher, Eva

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Gendered Organisation of Work: Care as a Question

2. Care Work and Labour Law

3. Anti-Discrimination Law As the Basis for a Right to Care at the Workplace

4. Gendered Collectivity in Labour Law

5. Theoretical Understandings: The Subjectivity of Labour Law

6. The Right to Care in the Workplace

Conclusion: A Labour Law Utopia

Über Autor(innen)

Eva Kocher is Professor of Law at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)