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JUSTICIA Y TRABAJO: UN ANÁLISIS NORMATIVO DE FORMAS DE TRABAJO NO ESTÁNDAR

JUSTICIA Y TRABAJO: UN ANÁLISIS NORMATIVO DE FORMAS DE TRABAJO NO ESTÁNDAR
AEI/FEDER, UE - PGC2018-095917-A-100

After several decades in which work and labor relations have aroused little interest in political philosophy, with notable exceptions, recently a new generation of political philosophers has made important advances in their conceptual and normative analysis, to which this project seeks to contribute. . In particular, the project draws on two recent developments on the normative status of labor relations and their legal regulation. The first includes labor republicanism and the political theory of the company as a response to the contractual conception of the company and labor relations. The second concerns the appropriate means to guarantee labor standards, with special emphasis on constitutional mechanisms at the state level and in the framework of human rights at the international level.

 

The objective of the project is to contribute to such debates by extending the object of analysis to atypical forms of work, such as temporary and part-time employment, the multipartite employment relationship or dependent self-employment, all of which are currently on the rise in developed economies, as well as as well as informal self-employment in developing countries. Despite accounting for more than half of the global workforce, such forms of work receive scant attention in existing philosophical analyses, which tend to focus on the so-called standard employment relationship. Specifically, the project seeks to examine the normative status of non-standard forms of work, the kinds of morally objectionable practices they often entail, and appropriate measures to combat them. We will use for this the recent theories of relational justice, which complement the dominant distributive approach in the philosophical analyzes on labor issues. With this, we seek to contribute to the philosophical study of these issues in Spain, as well as to strengthen existing ties with the main international authors in this area, some of whom participate in the project as external collaborators. The project will be divided into three blocks.

 

The first block will develop the analytical instruments of the theories of relational justice, including the recent theories of democratic equality as well as of domination and exploitation and, specifically, their structural variants, which will later be used in blocks 2 and 3. The second block will focus on atypical forms of work in developed economies, examining their normative status and the characteristic objectionable practices they may involve, using the tools of the previous block and paying attention to the contributions of labor republicanism and labor theory. Company policy. Likewise, we will examine the relevance and legitimacy of traditional means such as collective bargaining, codetermination or income guarantee policies, among others, for the adequate protection of the interests of atypical workers.

 

The third block will focus on self-employment, especially in the informal sector of developing economies. We seek to examine the normative status and distinctive objectionable practices to which such workers are subject, as well as the relevance and legitimacy of various mechanisms, and the human rights framework in particular, to protect their interests.

Principal researchers

Jahel Queralt
Iñigo Gonzalez Ricoy

Researchers

Félix Ovejero
Amount Awarded: 47.190 €