The Voyage of the Neptune Jade: Transnational Labour Solidarity and the Obstacles of Domestic Law
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Published as Chapter 19 in Labour Law in an Era of Globalization: Transformative Practices and Possibilities, Joanne Conaghan, Richard Michael Fischl & Karl Klare, eds.
This chapter recounts the troubled voyage of the Neptune Jade, a cargo ship caught in the midst of a dockworkers' dispute that began in Britain but attracted expressions of solidarity from dockworkers all over the world. It deploys the image of the endlessly voyaging Neptune Jade as a metaphor for the relentless search for solidarity in the midst of changing and highly unpredictable economic and political seas. Why should strikes aimed at supporting workers elsewhere not be deemed to involve basic rights? If a nation privileges political speech, why are expressions of views, voiced by withholding labour, not considered worthy of protection? The poignant absurdity to which this issue gives rise is illustrated by US laws protection of the right of unions to handbill consumers even though action is secondary, on the ground that it is protected by the First Amendment.
Publication Date
5-23-2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
Oxford
ISBN
9780199242474
First Page
379
Last Page
399
Keywords
strikes, labour lawyers, USA, Britain, common law, basic rights
Disciplines
Labor and Employment Law | Law | Transnational Law
Recommended Citation
James B. Atleson, The Voyage of the Neptune Jade: Transnational Labour Solidarity and the Obstacles of Domestic Law in Labour Law in an Era of Globalization: Transformative Practices and Possibilities 379 (Joanne Conaghan, Richard Michael Fischl & Karl Klare, eds., Oxford University Press 2002)
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