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Hazard or Hardship : Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801469244
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hazard or HardshipDDC classification:
  • 342/.0684
LOC classification:
  • K1830
Online resources:
Contents:
Hazard or Hardship -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Commodified Workers and the International Response -- 1. Human Rights and the Struggle to Define Hazards -- 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Individual Employment Rights -- 3. The Right to Refuse in International Labor Law -- 4. How Effective Are Convention 155 Refusal Rights? -- 5. Ideological Origins of the Global Framework -- 6. Negotiating "Safe" Rights versus Seeking Social Justice -- Conclusion: The Future of Labor Rights in the Working Environment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Hilgert finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety policy from the ground up.
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Hazard or Hardship -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Commodified Workers and the International Response -- 1. Human Rights and the Struggle to Define Hazards -- 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Individual Employment Rights -- 3. The Right to Refuse in International Labor Law -- 4. How Effective Are Convention 155 Refusal Rights? -- 5. Ideological Origins of the Global Framework -- 6. Negotiating "Safe" Rights versus Seeking Social Justice -- Conclusion: The Future of Labor Rights in the Working Environment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Hilgert finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety policy from the ground up.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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