Human Rights and European Politics

The Legal Political Status of Workers in the European Community

By: Fritz Fabricius

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Hardcover | 1 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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The free movement of labour will be one of the key elements of the Single Market soon to be implemented, One would therefore expect that efforts would have been made to harmonize social policies, especially on the legal status of workers. But the existing EC Treaty contains no provision and the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers of 1989 fails to fill the gap. The Charter delegates the socio-political responsibility in almost all points to the member states. Yet the constitutions of most refer to general human rights only. The author here stresses the importance of economic and social human rights which, like human rights in general, have their roots in the Enlightenment, especially in the works of Montesquieu, Adam Smith and Kant. The author examines how these thinkers' ideas on these topics have been neglected since the 19th century snd argues that it is time to revive them. In this context he discusses such current and hotly debated issues as ownership of the product of work, workers' determination, strikes and lockouts. He concludes that it is vital for the Single Market to extend human rights to the social and economic spheres. An appendix of key documents, otherwise difficult to access and some of which are available in English for the first time, enhance this important volume.

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"For everyone interested in the subject of social and economic rights of workers, this book is a must." --Andreas Nicolas Loizou, President of the Supreme Court of Cyprus, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights

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Preface
The Legal Framework of the EC and Human Rights
The Aim of an Internal Market and Related Social Problems	p. 1
Tasks and Aims of the EC and Means of Achieving Them	p. 3
EC-Provisions Concerning Social Standards and Social Politics	p. 4
Human Rights as a Possible Legal-Political Basis	p. 6
Perspectives of an International Labour, Economic and Social Legal Order on the Fundamentals of Human Rights
Human Rights - Basis for a World Law	p. 17
A Programme of Ten Principles for an Individualistic-Democratic Labour, Economic and Social Order of the Future	p. 25
Explanatory Statements Regarding the 'Programme of Principles'	p. 27
Outlooks of Collectivist-Democratic Labour, Economic and Social Orders	p. 34
The Legal Status of the Employee in an Industrialised Society: Reflections on the So-called Welfare State
Introduction: 'The Change' - 'The Dismantling of the Welfare State'?	p. 36
'Welfare State' - 'Democratic and Social Federal State' and 'Legal State' and the Legal Position of the Employee	p. 38
Influence of the Industrial System on the Implied Importance of Basic Rights and 'Human Rights of All'?	p. 50
Can the Elementary Human Right 'Work Leads to Ownership of the Worker in the Product of his Work' be Realised by Collective Bargaining Autonomy?	p. 62
The Fight For and Against Immutable and Inalienable 'Human Rights of All' and Democracy	p. 66
Thoughts and Ideas as to the Construction of a Liberal-Democratic and Social Legal State	p. 73
Utopia? - 'Tamperer with the System'? - Faith/Hope? - Optimism/Pessimism? - End without Change? - Scientific Recognition	p. 76
Jurisprudence as Science and its Methods	p. 78
Strike and Lock-out in the Order of the European Social Charter and 'Human Rights of All'
The European Social Charter as a Basis of International Law - General Human Rights as a Basis for Justice	p. 81
The Character of the Legal Obligations of Art. 6, Para. 4, ESCh, and their Consequences	p. 83
The Realisation of Art. 6, Para. 4, ESCh, in Other States of the Contracting Parties	p. 86
The Interpretations of Art. 6, Para. 4, ESCh	p. 95
Fundamentals for the Solution of the Problems Described	p. 98
Work - Economy - Law in an Individualistic-Democratic, Market-Economy-Orientated Social Order	p. 102
Final Consequences for Strike and Lock-out - Interpretation of Art. 6, Para. 4, ESCh	p. 122
Evaluation and Summary
Social and Economic Human Rights of Importance for the Worker	p. 126
Differing Qualities of the Above-Listed Human Rights	p. 128
Human Rights and the Common Weal. Realisation in Present-day Political Systems	p. 130
The Elementary Human Right 'Work Leads to Ownership of the Worker in the Product of his Work' Considered from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Karl Marx	p. 134
Deficits of Human Rights in 'Real Existing Socialism' and in Private Capitalism as Practised	p. 136
Abbreviations	p. 142
Appendix	p. 143
Literaturverzeichnis	p. 181
Index
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