Human Rights and European Politics: The Legal Political Status of Workers in the European Community [Hardcover]

This volume examines the roots of economic and social human rights in the Enlightenment thinking of Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Kant. The author observes how these thinkers' ideas on such topics have been neglected since the nineteenth century and discusses such hotly-debated issues as ownership of the product of labour, strikes and lockouts in light of these ideas. He concludes that it is vital for the Single Market to extend beyond human rights to the social and economic spheres, going beyond the terms of the Maasrticht Treaty.Fritz Fabricius is Emeritus Professor of Law, Ruhr-University of Bochum and President of the Committee of Experts for the European Social Charter, Council of Europe, StrasbourgFor everyone interested in the subject of social and economic rights of workers, this book is a must. Andreas Nicolas Loizou, President of the Supreme Court of Cyprus, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights