Social Rights at Work

Abstract

This chapter explores connections between social rights and labour rights within a human rights framework. Social human rights tend to be marginalized both in philosophical debates about human rights and in international human rights doctrine and practice. This chapter brings social human rights into focus and argues that they play an important though neglected role in shaping the content of labour human rights, in particular the human right to just and favourable conditions of work. The implications for the content of this right are elaborated, and the chapter concludes with some reflections on the relevance of social human rights in recent struggles for stable and predictable working hours.