Labour and Constitutionalism-from-Below: On the Effective Potential of Legal Strategy

劳工与自下而上的宪政：论法律策略的有效潜力

基本信息

批准号：
ES/V009990/1
负责人：
Jack Meakin
金额：
$ 13.57万
依托单位：
University of Bristol
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV009990%2F1
关键词：
Labour Constitutionalism Below Effective Potential

项目摘要

The central aim of my research is to comprehend how labour movements engage strategically with law as a means to realise their political demands. I investigate the characteristics of effective strategic engagements with legal instruments, from concrete legislative provisions to more abstract constitutional values, and evaluate the types of legal strategies that can facilitate labour's democratic ambitions. Today, labour faces significant political, legal, and economic challenges which makes it a key subject of socio-legal inquiry. My research responds to labour's socio-economic and legal context and is committed to describing and critically evaluating how movements have used legal mechanisms to re-balance the present relation between labour and capital.During the Fellowship I will engage with academic debates about the agency of social struggles in constitutional democracies and the ways that contemporary labour movements, such as 'gig economy' workers, have used law as a tool of social emancipation. To do so, I will establish a proven publication record by consolidating my PhD research into three journal articles that shape a distinctive research field connecting socio-legal inquiry with pressing concerns in labour law and constitutional theory. This will represent a significant contribution to constitutional theory because it contests the present focus on top-down governmental processes and encourages an innovative methodological approach 'from-below'. In the socio-legal and labour law fields, my research returns to a dormant yet fundamental stream of socio-legal analysis- legal mobilisation scholarship. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical analysis, I provide evaluative criteria from which to assess the opportunities and limitations of law as a tool of political struggle and a rigorous account of legal mobilisation by the factory recuperation movement in Argentina.My research is motivated by the challenge of comprehending contemporary labour's heterogenous experience of legal and political structures, and the extent to which labour can be understood as a societal and political force within constitutional frameworks. Under contemporary conditions labour is confronted with the fragmentation of work, the hollowing-out of legally permissible forms of industrial action, and the deregulation of labour protections. To comprehend the context of labour and to draw generalisable conclusions about its potentially productive relation with legal structures, I will extend my commitment to empirical analysis of legal struggles. Through case studies of labour's legal struggles in the U.K., Greece, and Spain I will provide comparative analysis of the contextual factors that shape labour's strategic engagements with law.In order to further uncover the specificity and changing nature of labour's legal challenge, it is necessary to develop a collaborative network of researchers and research users. I will organise a workshop that facilitates collaborations between academic and non-academic audiences, contributes to current academic conceptions of labour and legal struggle, and catalyse a rigorous field of future research. These meetings aim to produce practical guidance about effective strategies for labour movements, a policy report, and work towards an edited collection documenting labour's practical experiences of struggle.The Fellowship is an outstanding opportunity to achieve aims and objectives that will significantly contribute to my future research career. A postdoctoral position will provide the conditions under which I can establish a publication record, contribute new research to current academic debates, build networks, gain new teaching experience, improve my professional and academic skills through training opportunities, and develop funding applications. This programme of activities is focused toward and will be critical in supporting my career ambitions as an academic in the U.K. higher education sector.

我研究的中心目的是了解劳工运动如何战略性地与法律结合，作为实现其政治诉求的手段。我研究了法律文书有效战略参与的特征，从具体的立法规定到更抽象的宪法价值观，并评估了可以促进劳工民主雄心的法律战略类型。如今，劳工面临着重大的政治、法律和经济挑战，这使其成为社会法律调查的关键主题。我的研究回应了劳工的社会经济和法律背景，并致力于描述和批判性地评估运动如何利用法律机制来重新平衡劳工和资本之间的现有关系。在奖学金期间，我将参与有关劳工和资本机构的学术辩论。宪政民主国家的社会斗争以及当代劳工运动（例如“零工经济”工人）如何利用法律作为社会解放的工具。为此，我将通过将我的博士研究合并为三篇期刊文章来建立经过验证的出版记录，这些文章形成了一个独特的研究领域，将社会法律调查与劳动法和宪法理论中的紧迫问题联系起来。这将对宪法理论做出重大贡献，因为它挑战了目前对自上而下的政府程序的关注，并鼓励“自下而上”的创新方法论。在社会法律和劳动法领域，我的研究回到了社会法律分析的一个休眠但基本的流派——法律动员学术。借鉴理论和实证分析，我提供了评估标准，以评估法律作为政治斗争工具的机会和局限性，并对阿根廷工厂复兴运动的法律动员进行了严格的说明。我的研究是受到挑战的推动理解当代劳工在法律和政治结构中的异质经历，以及在宪法框架内劳工可以被理解为社会和政治力量的程度。在当代条件下，劳工面临着工作的碎片化、法律允许的工业行动形式的空心化以及劳动保护的放松管制。为了理解劳动的背景并就其与法律结构的潜在生产关系得出普遍结论，我将致力于对法律斗争进行实证分析。通过对英国、希腊和西班牙劳工法律斗争的案例研究，我将对影响劳工与法律战略接触的背景因素进行比较分析。为了进一步揭示劳工法律挑战的特殊性和不断变化的性质，有必要发展研究人员和研究用户的协作网络。我将组织一个研讨会，促进学术和非学术受众之间的合作，为当前劳工和法律斗争的学术概念做出贡献，并促进未来研究的严格领域。这些会议旨在为劳工运动的有效战略、政策报告提供实用指导，并致力于编辑记录劳工斗争实际经验的文集。奖学金是实现目的和目标的绝佳机会，这将对我未来的研究做出重大贡献职业。博士后职位将为我提供创造发表记录、为当前学术辩论贡献新研究、建立网络、获得新教学经验、通过培训机会提高我的专业和学术技能以及开发资助申请的条件。这项活动计划的重点是支持我在英国高等教育领域作为学者的职业抱负，并且对于支持我的职业抱负至关重要。