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Biografisk notat
Virginia Mantouvalou is Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law at University College London. She has received several awards for her research, including a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and a UCL Provost Award for Public Engagement for her research collaboration with the NGO Kalayaan (working on the rights of domestic workers). She is Articles Co-Editor of the Modern Law Review, a member of the editorial board of the Stanford Studies in Human Rights, Co-Editor of the UK Labour Law Blog, and Joint Editor of Current Legal Problems. She has held visiting positions at Georgetown University Law Centre in Washington DC and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.The book clearly appeals to scholars of labour law, social security law, migration law and human rights law to reflect on the nature and impact of such intersections.
Vandita Khanna, The Cambridge Law Journal
The concept of structural injustice, as developed for the labour law context by Virginia Mantouvalou, is a welcome and important addition to the literature. It helps us understand how workers' rights are affected by laws outside of labour law. At the same time, the book provides a set of legal tools to fight such injustice, by pointing out the infringement of human rights created by such laws. Practicing lawyers and judges would therefore find this book useful just as much as academics.
Guy Davidov, Industrial Law Journal
Virginia Mantouvalou offers an acute observation, a deep analysis, and a proposition, all of which are engaging and thought-provoking. The observation recognizes the existence of structural injustice as a general concept, distinct from injustice that is perpetrated by individuals or state actors.
Amir Paz-Fuchs, Modern Law Review
One of the book's important contributions is that it brings together groups who are excluded from labour market in different ways and whose exclusions are rarely looked at alongside each other: prison workers, migrant workers, welfare-to-work workers, and precaritised workers.
Professor Bridget Anderson, Book Symposium in the UK Labour Law Blog
Virginia Mantouvalou's new book, Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights, offers [firm] footing. We need a tool by which we can break apart and analyse the unwieldy notion of systemic and relative injustice, and Mantouvalou provides a diagnostic framework for that purpose. [...] There is a heartening optimism running through Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights, despite its thoughtful exploration of deep suffering and legal failures.
Emily Kenway, Book Symposium in the UK Labour Law Blog
The book is aimed at human rights, social security and labour law scholars, as well as adjudicators and policymakers, reflecting on the state's ability to revert current patterns of injustice. It focuses on the existential question of whether the law of work is producing unintended effects leading to structural, endemic, unjust consequences that are severely affecting the lives of working people.Two important notions arising from the book are the understanding of the state, and the analysis of the human rights framework.
Irena Ewa Lipowicz, European Journal of Social Security
For scholars nd practitioners, this book thus serves as a valuable resource that pushes the boundaries of conventional thinking about labour rights. For the general reader, it provides a sobering, yet inspiring exploration of how deeply entrenched injustices can be questioned, challenged, andultimately dismantled. For readers of the BHRJ, it provides a solid theoretical framework to advance the debate on structural injustice and expand the scope of corporate accountability.
Christian Linder, Business and Human Rights Journal