Right to Work

Virginia Mantouvalou is a Reader in Human Rights and Labour Law, and Co-Director of the Institute for Human Rights at University College London (UCL).

• 1. Work, its Moral Meaning or Import David Wiggins2. Is there a Human Right to Work? Hugh Collins3. The Right to Non-Exploitative Work Virginia Mantouvalou4. Universalising the Right to Work of Persons with Disabilities: An Equality and Dignity Based ApproachEinat Albin5. Aristotle, Arendt and the Gentleman: How the Conception of Remuneration Figures in our Understanding of a Right to Work and Be PaidJE Penner6. The Right to Work in International Human Rights Law Colm O’Cinneide7. The Right to (Decent) Work in a European Comparative Perspective Mark Freedland and Nicola Kountouris8. Giving Up on the Human Right to Work James W Nickel9. Only Fools and Horses: Some Sceptical Reflections on the Right to WorkAlan L Bogg10. The Right to Work and the Duty to Work Amir Paz-Fuchs11. The French Approach to the Right to Work: The Potential of a Constitutional Right in Ordinary CourtsSophie Robin-Olivier12. The Development of Right to Work Theories of Labour Law in Japan: A Comparative PerspectiveKenji Arita13. Progress Towards the Right to Work in the United Kingdom H ugh Collins14. Why Do So Few Employees Return to their Jobs? In Pursuit of a Right to Work Following Unfair DismissalJoanna Howe15. A Right to Work in the United States: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary PossibilitiesKatherine VW Stone16. Working Out the Right to Work in a Global Labour Market Guy Mundlak17. The Right to Work and Labour Market Flexibility: Labour Market Governance Norms in the International OrderKerry Rittich

Virginia Mantouvalou has assembled a remarkable collection of essays on the 'right to work' (RTW). The provenance, content, efficacy, future prospects and very existence of RTW are contested by many of her distinguished contributors.