Book Details
Orange Code:91608
Paperback:208 pages
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1. There’s Only One Worker: Toward the Legal Integration of Paid Employment and Unpaid Caregiving2. Private Needs and Public Space: Politics, Poverty, and Anti-Panhandling By-Laws in Canadian Cities3. Private Life: Biotechnology and the Public–Private Divide4. Invasions of Publicity: Digital Networks and the Privatization of the Public Sphere5. Green Revolution or Greenwash? Voluntary Environmental Standards, Public Law, and Private Authority in Canada6. The Emergence of Parallel Identity-Based Associations in Collective Bargaining Relations7. Contributors
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The separation between public and private spheres has structured much of our thinking about human organizations. Scholars from nearly all disciplines use the notion of a public-private divide as a means to order knowledge and better understand the mechanisms that govern and shape human behaviour and institutions. In legal and socio-legal analysis, the distinction informs the differences between state and non-state actors and between public good and private property. This rich collection of essays explores how the public-private divide influences, challenges, and interacts with law and law reform. Through various case studies, the contributors reflect on this complex dichotomy's role in structuring the socio-legal environment for the personal, social, economic, and governance relationships of citizens. They demonstrate that while the split between the public and the private is a useful way to understand the world, it is always only an ideological construct, and as such open to challenge.
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