Contesting Economic and Social Rights in Ireland
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Contesting Economic and Social Rights in Ireland

Constitution, State and Society, 1848–2016

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Contesting Economic and Social Rights in Ireland

Constitution, State and Society, 1848–2016

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This book presents a political understanding of socio-economic rights by contextualising constitution-makers' and judges' decision-making in terms of Ireland's rich history of people's struggles for justice 'from below' between 1848 and the present. Its theoretical framework incorporates critical legal studies and world-systems analysis. It performs a critical discourse analysis of constitution-making processes in 1922 and 1937 as well as subsequent property, trade union, family and welfare rights case law. It traces the marginalisation of socio-economic rights in Ireland from specific, local and institutional factors to the contested balance of core-peripheral and social relations in the world-system. The book demonstrates the endurance of ideological understandings of state constitutionalism as inherently neutral between interests. Unemployed marches, housing protestors and striking workers, however, provided important challenges and oppositional discourses. Recognising these enduring forms of power and ideology is vital if we are to assess critically the possibilities and limits of contesting socio-economic rights today.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781316685259
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: The Politics of Economic and Social Rights
  9. 1 Constitution `from Below' in Ireland: 1848–1922
  10. 2 `Not Alone Personal Liberty but Economic Freedom': Socio-economic Rights in the Making of the 1922 Irish Free State Constitution
  11. 3 `Highly Dangerous'? Socio-economic Rights in the Making of the 1937 Irish Constitution
  12. 4 Contesting the Irish Constitution and the World-system: 1945-2008
  13. 5 The Polarities of Justice and Legal Business
  14. 6 Contesting Property Rights
  15. 7 Contesting Trade Union Rights
  16. 8 Contesting Family, Education, and Welfare Rights
  17. 9 Reproducing the Value-consensus State
  18. 10 Constitution `from below' in Ireland: 1945–2008
  19. Conclusion: Contesting Economic and Social Rights Today
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index