Labour and Constitutionalism-from-Below: On the Effective Potential of Legal Strategy

我的研究的中心目标是理解劳工运动如何战略性地与法律合作，以实现他们的政治要求。我调查的特点，有效的战略参与与法律的文书，从具体的立法规定，更抽象的宪法价值观，并评估类型的法律的战略，可以促进劳动的民主抱负。今天，劳工面临着重大的政治、法律的和经济挑战，这使其成为社会法律的调查的一个关键主题。我的研究回应了劳动的社会经济和法律的背景，并致力于描述和批判性地评估运动如何使用法律的机制，以重新平衡目前的劳资关系。在奖学金期间，我将参与学术辩论的机构在宪政民主国家的社会斗争和方式，当代劳工运动，如“零工经济”的工人，把法律作为社会解放的工具。要做到这一点，我将通过巩固我的博士研究到三个期刊文章，形成一个独特的研究领域连接社会法律调查与劳动法和宪法理论的紧迫问题，建立一个行之有效的出版记录。这将是对宪法理论的重大贡献，因为它质疑目前对自上而下的政府程序的关注，并鼓励“从下而上”的创新方法。在社会法律的和劳动法领域，我的研究回到了社会法律的分析的休眠但基本流-法律的动员奖学金。在理论和实证分析的基础上，我提供了评估标准，从中评估法律作为政治斗争工具的机会和局限性，并对阿根廷工厂恢复运动的法律的动员进行了严格的描述。我的研究是出于理解当代劳动者对法律的和政治结构的异质性经验的挑战，以及在宪法框架内，劳工在多大程度上可以被理解为一种社会和政治力量。在当代条件下，劳工面临着工作分散、法律允许的劳工行动形式空洞化以及劳工保护放松管制的问题。为了理解劳动的背景，并就其与法律的结构的潜在生产关系得出可概括的结论，我将致力于对法律的斗争进行实证分析。通过对英国工党法律的斗争的案例研究，希腊和西班牙，我将提供比较分析的背景因素，塑造劳动力的战略engagements with law. To进一步揭示劳动的法律的挑战的特殊性和不断变化的性质，有必要开发一个研究人员和研究用户的协作网络。我将组织一个研讨会，促进学术和非学术观众之间的合作，有助于当前的劳动和法律的斗争的学术概念，并催化未来研究的严格领域。这些会议旨在为劳工运动的有效战略提供实际指导，编写政策报告，并编辑一本记录劳工斗争实践经验的文集。该奖学金是实现目标和目的的绝佳机会，这将对我未来的研究生涯做出重大贡献。博士后职位将提供条件，使我能够建立出版记录，为当前的学术辩论贡献新的研究，建立网络，获得新的教学经验，通过培训机会提高我的专业和学术技能，并开发资金申请。这项活动计划的重点是支持我作为英国学者的职业抱负，并将发挥关键作用。高等教育部门。

The central aim of my research is to comprehend how labour movements engage strategically with law as a means to realise their political demands. I investigate the characteristics of effective strategic engagements with legal instruments, from concrete legislative provisions to more abstract constitutional values, and evaluate the types of legal strategies that can facilitate labour's democratic ambitions. Today, labour faces significant political, legal, and economic challenges which makes it a key subject of socio-legal inquiry. My research responds to labour's socio-economic and legal context and is committed to describing and critically evaluating how movements have used legal mechanisms to re-balance the present relation between labour and capital.During the Fellowship I will engage with academic debates about the agency of social struggles in constitutional democracies and the ways that contemporary labour movements, such as 'gig economy' workers, have used law as a tool of social emancipation. To do so, I will establish a proven publication record by consolidating my PhD research into three journal articles that shape a distinctive research field connecting socio-legal inquiry with pressing concerns in labour law and constitutional theory. This will represent a significant contribution to constitutional theory because it contests the present focus on top-down governmental processes and encourages an innovative methodological approach 'from-below'. In the socio-legal and labour law fields, my research returns to a dormant yet fundamental stream of socio-legal analysis- legal mobilisation scholarship. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical analysis, I provide evaluative criteria from which to assess the opportunities and limitations of law as a tool of political struggle and a rigorous account of legal mobilisation by the factory recuperation movement in Argentina.My research is motivated by the challenge of comprehending contemporary labour's heterogenous experience of legal and political structures, and the extent to which labour can be understood as a societal and political force within constitutional frameworks. Under contemporary conditions labour is confronted with the fragmentation of work, the hollowing-out of legally permissible forms of industrial action, and the deregulation of labour protections. To comprehend the context of labour and to draw generalisable conclusions about its potentially productive relation with legal structures, I will extend my commitment to empirical analysis of legal struggles. Through case studies of labour's legal struggles in the U.K., Greece, and Spain I will provide comparative analysis of the contextual factors that shape labour's strategic engagements with law.In order to further uncover the specificity and changing nature of labour's legal challenge, it is necessary to develop a collaborative network of researchers and research users. I will organise a workshop that facilitates collaborations between academic and non-academic audiences, contributes to current academic conceptions of labour and legal struggle, and catalyse a rigorous field of future research. These meetings aim to produce practical guidance about effective strategies for labour movements, a policy report, and work towards an edited collection documenting labour's practical experiences of struggle.The Fellowship is an outstanding opportunity to achieve aims and objectives that will significantly contribute to my future research career. A postdoctoral position will provide the conditions under which I can establish a publication record, contribute new research to current academic debates, build networks, gain new teaching experience, improve my professional and academic skills through training opportunities, and develop funding applications. This programme of activities is focused toward and will be critical in supporting my career ambitions as an academic in the U.K. higher education sector.