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030201 KU Unfree Labour - Legal Philosophical Perspectives (2023S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 40 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

In der Vorbesprechung am 8.3. wird das Programm vorgestellt und die Themen für die Kurzreferate/Textkommentare vergeben, das Einbringen eigener Themenideen ist willkommen.

  • Wednesday 08.03. 15:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum SEM34 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG (Kickoff Class)
  • Wednesday 15.03. 15:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM34 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG
  • Wednesday 29.03. 15:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM34 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG
  • Wednesday 03.05. 15:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM34 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG
  • Wednesday 17.05. 15:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM34 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG
  • Wednesday 31.05. 15:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM34 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG
  • Wednesday 07.06. 15:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM34 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Although slavery and forced labor are legally prohibited, millions of people continue to work under coercion to this day. The course will present various case studies, as well as theoretical approaches that attempt to provide explanations for the persistence of unfree labor. Starting with an examination of the historical genesis of the free labor contract and the concepts of coercion and freedom in the context of the employment relationship, specific historical and contemporary examples of unfree labor will be examined. Intersectional approaches play an important role, as they make visible how legal and extra-legal norms interact and push marginalized groups into unfree labor relations.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Die Beurteilung setzt sich wie folgt zusammen:
- Anwesenheit ist eine Mindestanforderung für eine positive Beurteilung.
- begleitende Aufgaben zu den Texten (zB Lesenotizen, Kurzzusammenfassungen, etc)
- aktive Teilnahme an gemeinsamen Diskussionen
- Kurzreferat

Examination topics

Reading list

Vorläufige Literaturauswahl (nur ein Teil davon wird Pflichtlektüre sein)

Blackett, Adelle; Duquesnoy, Alice (2021) Slavery Is Not a Metaphor: U.S. Prison Labor and Racial Subordination Through the Lens of the ILO’s Abolition of Forced Labor Convention, UCLA Law Review 1504, 67-147.

LeBaron, Genevieve & Nicola Phillips (2018): States and the Political Economy of Unfree Labour, in: New Political Economy, 1-21.

Pavlou, Vera (2016): Migrant domestic workers, vulnerability and the law: immigration and employment laws in Cyprus and Spain, in: Investigaciones Feministas, Vol. 7/1, 149-168.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, Forced to Care. Coercion and Caregiving in America, Harvard University Press 2010.

Haskins, Victoria; Lowrie, Claire (eds.), Colonization and Domestic Service. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge 2015.

Herrmann-Otto, Elisabeth (Hrsg.) (2005): Unfreie Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Eine Einführung, Hildesheim.

Hussain, Nasser (2003): The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law, Michigan.

Keiser, Thorsten (2013): Vertragszwang und Vertragsfreiheit im Recht der Arbeit von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Moderne, Frankfurt am Main.

Mantouvalou, Virginia (2006): Servitude and Forced Labour in the 21stCentury: The Human Rights of Domestic Workers, Industrial Law Journal 35, 395.

Parrenas, Rachel Salazar (2022): Unfree. Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States, Stanford University Press.

Pierson, Thomas (2016), Das Gesinde und die Herausbildung moderner Privatrechtsprinzipien, Frankfurt am Main.

Stanley, Amy Dru (1998) From bondage to contract: wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation, Cambridge.

Steinfeld, Robert J. (1991): The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English & American Law and Culture, 1350-1870, Chapel Hill/London.

Steinfeld, Robert J. (2001): Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge.

Tayyab, Mahmud (2013): Cheaper Than a Slave: Indentured Labor, Colonialism, and Capitalism, in: Whittier Law Review, Vol. 34/2, 215-243.

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