A Right’s Story: The Historical Roots of the Right to Work as a Human Right

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Azadeh Al- Sadat Taheri¹ 

[1] Assistant Professor of Public Law at Semnan University;

关键词: Human Rights;    Welfare Rights;    Right to Work;    Labour Law;   

DOI  :  10.22096/HR.2017.30778

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The right to work has been recognized in many international instruments. According to this right, everybody deserves to enjoy decent and appropriate job opportunities.On the other hand this right includes states’ obligations to provide enough opportunities. This article seeks to explain historical roots of the right to work. The study shows that industrial revolution, workers’ movements, recession in some periods of time and deep changes after the Second World War were the most important factors in emerging the right, which later was accepted as a welfare right in the context of human rights.

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