Labour Commodification and Global Justice

Abstract: In this article, I maintain that the social process of labour commodification, through which the individual capability to uphold a decent welfare is bound to participation in the labour market, poses a problem of justice from the republican prospective on freedom as non-domination. I first discuss the reasons we might hold that capitalism brings a form of systemic domination by virtue of one of its intrinsic features: unequal access to the means of production. Then, I argue for a minimum de-commodification of labour power as a criterion of justice, adding that it should be conceived as a cosmopolitan proviso because states unfairly suffer from their limited economic capacity to neutralize capitalist systemic domination. Lastly, I compare the normative account of global justice that I am proposing in this article with sufficientarianism, with the capability approach, and with Thomas Pogge's 'Global Resources Dividend'

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Labour Commodification and Global Justice ; volume:33 ; number:1 ; year:2019 ; pages:53-88 ; extent:36 ; Kriterion ; 33, Heft 1 (2019), 53-88 (gesamt 36)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Corvino, Fausto

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/krt-2019-330104
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022090315111852160255
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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