1. Labour Constitutions and Occupational Communities: Social Norms and Legal Norms at Work.
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DUKES, RUTH and STREECK, WOLFGANG
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SOCIAL norms , *LABOR unions , *LABOR laws , *COLLECTIVE bargaining , *COMMUNITIES - Abstract
This paper considers the interaction of legal norms and social norms in the regulation of work and working relations, observing that, with the contraction of collective bargaining, this is a matter that no longer attracts the attention that it deserves. Drawing upon two concepts from sociology – Max Weber's 'labour constitution' and Seymour Martin Lipset's 'occupational community' – it focuses on possibilities for the emergence, within groups of workers, of shared normative beliefs concerning 'industrial justice' (Selznick); for collective solidarity and agency; for the transformation of shared beliefs into legally binding norms; and for the enforcement of those norms. If labour law is currently in 'crisis', then a promising route out of the crisis, we argue, is for the law to recover its procedural focus, facilitating and encouraging these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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