BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: \;Labor scholars are divided on the issue of whether a hum an rights approach to workers’ struggles is in the best interests of labor or not. Those who disagree with this approach claim\, among other things\ , that a human rights approach favors individual autonomy over collective solidarity and relies on elite-driven judicial strategies rather than “cla ss-based\, grassroots\, fight-back strategies\,” in the words of one skept ic. “Labor rights are human rights” proponents think that this approach ho lds out the best hope for workers in the era of neoliberal globalization a nd the growing irrelevance of citizenship-based rights in the context of b oth transnational capital and transnational labor. Away from the talking h eads\, workers’ campaigns on the ground\, particularly among marginalized workers in the Global South and right-to-work U.S. states\, as well as tra nsnational labor migrants – all of whom lack basic labor rights and have l imited access to collective bargaining opportunities – are choosing to emb race human rights-based approaches that combine social-movement unionism w ith instrumental appeals to transnational labor solidarity and universal h uman rights. In this forum\, we ask the speakers to address three question s (and/or any others they may deem particularly relevant): \;In what w ays might human rights approaches both subvert traditional labor solidarit ies AND create new ones? \;In what ways does market-driven globalizati on both subvert domestic labor rights and create opportunities for new for ms of labor struggle and solidarity? \;(How) do race\, gender and othe r identities change debates around the relationship between labor and huma n rights?For more details\, check out our website. DTEND:20161027T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260513T102303Z DTSTART:20161027T180000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Workers’ Rights Are Human Rights? Diversifying Labor Strategies in a Changing World UID:RFCALITEM639142501830083911 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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Labor scholars are divided on th e issue of whether a human rights approach to workers’ struggles is in the best interests of labor or not. Those who disagree with this approach cla im\, among other things\, that a human rights approach favors individual a utonomy over collective solidarity and relies on elite-driven judicial str ategies rather than “class-based\, grassroots\, fight-back strategies\,” i n the words of one skeptic. “Labor rights are human rights” proponents thi nk that this approach holds out the best hope for workers in the era of ne oliberal globalization and the growing irrelevance of citizenship-based ri ghts in the context of both transnational capital and transnational labor. Away from the talking heads\, workers’ campaigns on the ground\, particul arly among marginalized workers in the Global South and right-to-work U.S. states\, as well as transnational labor migrants – all of whom lack basic labor rights and have limited access to collective bargaining opportuniti es – are choosing to embrace human rights-based approaches that combine so cial-movement unionism with instrumental appeals to transnational labor so lidarity and universal human rights. In this forum\, we ask the speakers t o address three questions (and/or any others they may deem particularly re levant):
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In what ways might human rights approaches both sub vert traditional labor solidarities AND create new ones?
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In what ways does market-driven globalization both subvert domestic labor rig hts and create opportunities for new forms of labor struggle and solidarit y?
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(How) do race\, gender and other identities change debate s around the relationship between labor and human rights?


For more details\, check out our website.

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