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- Title
Book Review: Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights by Virginia Mantouvalou.
- Authors
Ratti, Luca
- Abstract
The book "Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights" by Virginia Mantouvalou explores the role of the law in perpetuating unjust outcomes for workers, despite its aim to promote justice. The book focuses on specific areas of regulation, such as migrant workers, prison workers, welfare recipients, and atypical workers, where the law contributes to increasing precarity and vulnerability. Mantouvalou argues that the state should be held responsible under human rights law for these exploitative effects. The book also examines the connection between welfare-to-work schemes and in-work poverty, suggesting remedies such as removing strict conditionality criteria and prohibiting zero-hours contracts. Overall, the book emphasizes the importance of a human rights discourse in labor law and questions the role of the law in ensuring non-exploitative work.
- Subjects
SOCIAL injustice; EMPLOYEE rights; EUROPEAN Convention on Human Rights; BARGAINING power
- Publication
European Journal of Social Security, 2024, Vol 26, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
1388-2627
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/13882627231204825