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  • 3 - Labor’s Obstacles and Democracy’s Demise

  • from Part I - Labor and Democracy: Theory and Practice
  • Edited by Angela B. Cornell, Cornell University, New York, Mark Barenberg, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
    Published online:
    25 January 2022
    Print publication:
    20 January 2022, pp 49-65

  • Summary

    Labor’s role in forging and sustaining democracies has long been recognized in international human rights law and social science literature, but union rights and density are declining around the globe, and unfavorable domestic law jurisprudence in many parts of the globe has undermined collective rights. This chapter explores the juxtaposition of labor’s exalted place in international human rights law with its subordinate position in domestic law. In international human rights instruments and jurisprudence, labor unions hold a special position, and freedom of association is the critical foundational right upon which other rights and interests are advanced. In social science literature labor unions have pro-democracy attributes. This chapterexplores whether the decline in union strength has created a political void that has been filled by more authoritarian tendencies.