Project

Our project, Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts (GLOSOC), investigates how work-related rights – including the right not to work, to earn one’s own money, and to maintain certain ‘living standards’ – have been understood, expressed, and contested in different settings and over time. By charting the development of various discourses about work-related rights from the late nineteenth century to the present, GLOSOC provides historically-informed insights into the changes affecting socio-economic rights in the current global market economy.