Property, Labour and Legal Regulation: Dignity or Dependence?

Publication Type

Book

Publication Date

12-2015

Abstract

In this comparative study, the author examines the problematic nexus between undervalued labour and vulnerable migration status in dis-embedded markets. It highlights the frustrations raised by timeless regulatory failure and the chronic complicity of private property arrangements in delivering unsustainable market engagement. The author identifies the challenge for normative and functional foundations of equitable governance, by repositioning regulatory principle, to restore dignity to market relations. The accountability of property through wider access and inclusion, it is argued, grounds commodified occupation as a vitally valuable social bond in which workers are empowered to participate rather than suffer exploitation. The comparative analysis of the EU and ASEAN regulatory contexts reveals that it is not simply more regulatory activity, but rather its reversion from market interests to human values, which will advance sustainability.

Keywords

Right of property, migrant labour, foreign workers

Discipline

Labor and Employment Law | Property Law and Real Estate

Research Areas

Public Interest Law, Community and Social Justice

First Page

1

Last Page

256

ISBN

9781784711641

Identifier

10.4337/9781784711641

Publisher

Edward Elgar

City or Country

Cheltenham

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784711641

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