Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312709 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Abstract: 
Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth and Post-Productive Work Approaches engages with new socioeconomic ideas, or utopias, that look beyond the current growth-driven competitive market economy. Building on critiques of economic growth and the limits of the logic of human productivity and competitivity for workers and the planet, it explores alternative approaches and what they mean for work in general and labour law in particular. The concept of post-growth is used to rethink the purpose of the economy by looking beyond merely increasing wealth, consumption, and production. Post-productive work is introduced to question the centrality of economically productive work in labour law. The chapters in this book adopt a forward-looking approach and discuss whether and how labour law can contribute to emancipation from the constraints of growth and productivity by revisiting the value, organization, and impact of work on people and the environment.
Subjects: 
Post-growth
economic growth
productive work
labour law
wellbeing
ecological labour law
care work
climate change
basic income
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ISBN: 
978-0-19-199556-9
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Book

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