Are Worker Rights Human Rights?: Richard McIntyre Ann Arbor
本书探讨工人权利与人权之间的关联，指出两者基于不同的思想传统（个人主义与集体权利），并揭示阶级利益与道德关切如何影响工人权利的界定与凸显。
‘Worker rights are Human Rights’ is a common enough phrase we have all heard at some point or another. In the USA, coming across bumper stickers with the same message adorning cars, faculty office, activists’ offices and student rooms amongst progressive and radical communities is not unusual. Yet, if any supporter was queried as to what the substantive connection between worker rights and human rights is, then the clarity propounded by the bumper sticker is likely to come apart. McIntyre seeks to show how the association between worker and human rights is a tenuous link because the intellectual trajectory upon which each draws upon is distinct. Human rights discourse draws upon individualism and individual rights, while worker rights are based upon collective rights with a different historical context. This book, then, seeks to uncover the social processes at play in defining and conceptualizing worker rights so that the links between class interest and moral concerns are made bare—and we have a better understanding as to why particular worker rights gain prominence over that of others. He is also interested, however, in bringing to the fore an analytically understudied rights discourse—vis-à-vis intellectual property rights, for example—that plays a key role in shaping global political economy relations (p. 7).