Labour Justice: A Constitutional Evaluation of Labour Law

This book argues that the imagination of the worker-citizen, inherent in citizens' constitutional duty to work, is the very foundation of constitutional citizenship and its social justice agenda. The design of social justice in the constitution takes labour as its core ideological and political commitment, seeking to treat workers fairly for their social contribution through work. Employing this constitutional design, this book evaluates the recently repealed labour law against the constitutional metric of social justice. Drawing on the components of social justice, the book evaluates the new labour law in its capacity to promote market-based distribution, respecting basic individual liberties; the complementary redistribution of public goods, upholding the principle of solidarity; and worker participation in decisions about the operation of the market and the state. In offering such evaluation, the book conceives of work in its wider social relationship in contrast to its narrower private exchange rationale.

這本書主張，工人公民的想像力是公民憲法責任中固有的，也是憲法公民身份及其社會正義議程的基礎。憲法中的社會正義設計以勞動作為其核心意識形態和政治承諾，旨在通過工作公平對待工人對社會的貢獻。本書運用這種憲法設計，根據社會正義的要素評估了最近被廢除的勞動法律。本書借鑒社會正義的組成部分，評估了新勞動法在促進基於市場的分配、尊重基本個人自由；公共財物的補充再分配，堅持團結原則；以及工人參與有關市場和國家運作的決策方面的能力。在提供這樣的評估時，本書將工作概念化為更廣泛的社會關係，與其狹義的私人交換理性形成對比。