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Overview
This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many peoples lives and a central concern of sociology.
Synopsis
Woodiwiss (sociology, City U., London, UK) views the development of labor rights as central to the future of the human rights project and explores how they should be theoretically constructed in order to be justifiable by international bodies. Central to the discussion is his insistence that rights be seen as means to an end rather than principles. Seeing rights as malleable allows different rights to be used in different societies, making the possibility of globalizing the "inherent dignity" of the "human family," as the Universal Declaration puts it, much more real. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR