Inscribing Solidarity
Debates in Labor Law and Beyond

This volume offers insights into the consequences of a growing reliance on the principle of solidarity to 'inscribe' social policies.

Julia López López (Edited by)

9781009170277, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 November 2022

280 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.6 cm, 0.43 kg

'This book addresses one of the most pressing issues of our times. Until now, progressive politics has been built upon a shared sense of interest, cohesion, and mutual dependency amongst working and marginalized members of the population. Recently, business practices and neoliberal policies have individualized the work experience and hence undermined solidarity. These essays provide an in-depth examination of solidarity in the current context, and present an invaluable set of prescriptions for reclaiming and sustaining solidarity in today's world.' Katherine Stone, Arjay and Frances Miller Distinguished Professor, UCLA School of Law

Many governments, large institutions, and collective actors rely on the principle of solidarity to embed social policies on firm normative and legal grounds. In this original volume, a multidisciplinary roster of scholars come together to examine the contributions – and challenges –implicit in relying on the idea of solidarity to 'inscribe' this principle in social policies. Chapters explore how the dependence on the solidarity principle, and especially on inclusive understandings of solidarity, can strengthen or weaken institutions and movements. The volume's contributors cover developments across decades with a multilevel approach exploring dynamic interactions between local, national, and supranational arenas in pursuing and adjudicating the solidarity principle. Unique and innovative, Inscribing Solidarity examines the implications and dynamics of solidarity across a variety of terrains to illuminate its concrete limitations and specific advantages. This title is also available via Open Access on Cambridge Core.

1. Inscribing solidarity in labor law: promise and limitations Julia López López
2. Sustainability as solidarity unbound: Labour rights and collective voice in the United Nations sustainable development goals and the European Union Tonia Novitz
3. solidarity as a central aim of collective labour law? Reingard Zimmer
4. Solidarity: Different issues in a community perspective Gian Guido Balandi and Stefania Buoso
5. Solidarity, Covid-19 and a new social contract K. D. Ewing
6. Solidarity in the city Scott L. Cummings
7. Regulation of the access of undocumented migrants to social protection: Exploring the boundaries of solidarity Alexandre de le Court
8. Solidarity in hard times: The politics of labor market and social protection reform in Portugal (2010-2020) Rui Branco and Daniel Cardoso.

Subject Areas: Employment & labour law [LNH], Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], Comparative law [LAM], Law [L], Social issues & processes [JFF]