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- Title
Die ILO-Standards zum Schutz von Arbeitnehmerrechten: Ein Begründungsversuch mit Hilfe der kantischen Position von Norman E. Bowie.
- Authors
Bäumlisberger, Damian; Brink, Alexander
- Abstract
The article aims at exploring the normative basis of the International Labour Organization's labour standards. Based on Norman E. Bowie's Kantian perspective on Business Ethics the authors show that Bowie's theoretical groundwork can in principle be used to ethically justify the four core areas of the ILO's activities. However, they also discover the limitations of Bowie's position which can only sometimes be overcome by additional concepts compatible with the overall Kantian thrust. For example, Philip Pettit's conception of republican freedom is proposed as a refinement of Bowie's partly problematic distinction between negative and positive freedom. There remain some critical aspects in the fields of protection of children, non-discrimination, and labour unions. All things combined the article provides an overall and cautiously affirmative picture concerning the possibility of grounding the ILO's labour standards in Kantian concepts.
- Subjects
PRODUCTION standards; EMPLOYEE rights; BUSINESS ethics; LABOR unions; BOWIE, Norman E.; PETTIT, Philip; INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation
- Publication
Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts und Unternehmensethik, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 2, p118
- ISSN
1439-880X
- Publication type
Article