A minimum de-commodification of labour and global justice

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Chapter 3 in Global Justice, Markets and Domination, 2020, pp 98-131 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In the third chapter I firstly explain what a minimum de-commodification of labour power (MDL) consists in, why it should be preferred, both normatively and in virtue of economic realism, to a full de-commodification of labour power, and that the only coherent way to bring about MDL is to make the relative provisions unconditional. Then, I shall provide and discuss four different normative reasons why MDL should be implemented at the global level. This will lead me to analyse labour decommodification from a gender perspective, arguing that this approach differs from both ‘the politics of empowering women within the workplace’ and universal basic income, and maintaining that MDL represents a truly intersectional measure for promoting women’s freedom. Lastly, I shall deal with the issue whether MDL is structurally different from more famous theories of global justice: sufficientarianism, the capability approach and Pogge’s Global Resources Dividend (GRD).

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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