Contesting economic and social rights in Ireland : constitution, state and society, 1848-2016 / Thomas Murray.
2016
KDK1255 .M87 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Contesting economic and social rights in Ireland : constitution, state and society, 1848-2016 / Thomas Murray.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016.
Description
x, 396 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Formatted Contents Note
Constitution 'from below' in Ireland: 1848-1922
'Not alone personal liberty but economic freedom': Socio-economic rights in the making of the 1922 Irish free state Constitution
'Highly dangerous'? Socio-economic rights in the making of the 1937 Irish Constitution
Contesting the Irish Consitution and the world-system: 1945-2008
The polarities of justice and legal business
Contesting property rights
Contesting trade union rights
Contesting family, education, and welfare rights
Reproducing the value-consensus stare
Constitution 'from below' in Ireland: 1945-2008
Contesting economic and social rights today.
'Not alone personal liberty but economic freedom': Socio-economic rights in the making of the 1922 Irish free state Constitution
'Highly dangerous'? Socio-economic rights in the making of the 1937 Irish Constitution
Contesting the Irish Consitution and the world-system: 1945-2008
The polarities of justice and legal business
Contesting property rights
Contesting trade union rights
Contesting family, education, and welfare rights
Reproducing the value-consensus stare
Constitution 'from below' in Ireland: 1945-2008
Contesting economic and social rights today.
Summary
"Why do states opt to constitutionally entrench economic and social rights? Why do societies demand them? These are the central puzzles of Contesting Economic and Social Rights in Ireland. While most studies of socio-economic rights focus on legal or normative argumentation, Thomas Murray proposes that questions of rights and redistribution necessitate the analysis of power in society. Murray draws on new archival, case-law and statistical research to reconstruct socio-economic rights discourses from across Irish society, to demonstrate the tension between state and civil society discourses, and to trace an untold history of their contested development over time. From the mid-19th to the early 21st century, Ireland's conservative and nationalist constitutional projects have tended to dominate or incorporate social democratic and radical ones, albeit in a process continually contested at critical junctures. The rich and diverse history of people's struggles for justice 'from below' -- from organic courts in days of popular militancy to unemployed marches, from housing action protesters to striking workers -- provides an alternative, oppositional perspective on constitutionalism from which to recuperate and assess the possibilities and limits of advocating economic and social rights today" -- Publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KDK1255 .M87 2016
Language
English
ISBN
1107155355
9781107155350
9781107155350
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