Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885362.003
Abstract
Conventional workplace law includes the law of collective bargaining and employment contracts. This chapter argues that, to fully understand how law constructs worker power, industrial democracy, and political democracy, workplace law should greatly broaden in scope. The “new labor law” should encompass components of many fields of law that influence worker power and democracy as much as many components of conventional labor law. These additional components are lodged in domestic and international finance law, social wage law, constitutional law, communication law, tax law, and many more fields. The chapter applies the new labor law to critique and offer proposals to reconstruct existing law in the service of empowering workers in the workplace and polity, within both capitalist economies and imagined democratic socialist regimes.
Disciplines
Labor and Employment Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Mark Barenberg,
A New Labor for Deep Democracy: From Social Democracy to Democratic Socialism,
The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy, Angela B. Cornell & Mark Barenberg, Cambridge University Press
(2021).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4262
Comments
This material has been published in The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy edited by Angela B. Cornell and Mark Barenberg. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use.