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The right to work: Linking human rights and employment policy
Author(s) -
MUNDLAK Guy
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2007.00013.x
Subject(s) - human rights , norm (philosophy) , superordinate goals , law and economics , work (physics) , right to work , construct (python library) , cultural rights , political science , social rights , economics , economic system , international human rights law , law , social psychology , psychology , mechanical engineering , computer science , programming language , engineering
This article outlines various explanations for singling out the right to work from the roster of human rights, and emphasizes the dilemmas associated with regulating the labour market as a barrier to the development of the right. It compares two frameworks that address these concerns from the contrasted perspectives of human rights and employment policy — namely, the General Comment of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the European Employment Strategy. While these approaches are not natural allies, they can complement each other and construct an institutional system guided by the right to work as a superordinate norm.