ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
A New Labour Law for Supply Chain Capitalism
Labour law gradually protects fewer of the worlds’ workers. Changes in work and capital structure, new technologies and evolving modes of supply and production (together: ‘supply chain capitalism’), lead to an incongruence between the distribution of market power and the premises and tools of labour law, creating barriers to workers’ organization and agency. This incongruence stems from the fact that labour law developed in industrial economies to respond to the power disparities between capital and labour, and is therefore tied to a dyadic employer-employee paradigm in which labour law seeks to empower workers vis-à-vis employers, the presumed owners of capital. Yet this is no longer the…
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