Human Rights and Industrial Relations

Abstract

Abstract Discussions concerning human rights have been characterised by a clash between natural rights/liberalism and ‘power’, ‘social democratic’ and feminist perspectives. Under the former individuals are accorded freedom and protection from interference by the state. Individuals are free to pursue their interests/natural rights on the proviso of not infringing the natural rights of others. Writers in the latter tradition maintain that human rights cannot be characterised by a dichotomy between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’, or abstracted from prevailing relations of economic power. While industrial relations (the discipline) has traditionally not been concerned with human rights per se, its traditional concern with tensions between ‘individual’ and ‘collective’ rights has a resonance with discussions of human rights. Individual workers have turned to collective action to counter the superior economic power and dominance of those that employ them. The paper examines various issues associated with indus...

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