"Workers' Rights are Human Rights": The Scope and Limits of a Precarious Wageworker's Strategy. Issue 1 (March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Caffentzis, George
• Is Part Of: Working USA. Volume 19:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 25
• Page End: 36
• Publication Date: 2016-03
• Subjects: Labor unions -- Periodicals; Labor -- Periodicals; Working class -- Periodicals; Labor unions -- United States -- Periodicals; Labor -- United States -- Periodicals; Working class -- United States -- Periodicals; 331
• DOI: 10.1111/wusa.12225
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1089-7011

Abstract

Abstract : This essay examines the slogan, "Worker's Rights are Human Rights" which is the early twenty‐first century echo of the nineteenth's, "An injury to one is an injury to all." I analyze the implications of the strategy implicit in the twenty‐first century slogan for an anti‐globalization movement and its impact on the precarious wageworkers' struggle in the U.S. and internationally. I conclude that the nineteenth century shibboleth is more politically reliable.