- Date
2000
- Authors
Daniel Attas
- Abstract
Working from a ``capitalist'''' theory of exploitation, based on a neo-classical account of economic value, I argue that guest workers are exploited. It may be objected, however, that since they are not citizens, any inequality that stems from their status as non-citizens is morally unobjectionable. Although host countries are under no moral obligation to admit guest workers as citizens, thereare independent reasons that call for the extension of economicrights – the freedom of occupation in particular – to guestworkers. Since the cause of unequal exchange rests in the factthat guest workers are deprived of these rights, rather than in their exclusion from citizenship per se, I concludethat they are exploited even if their exclusion from citizenshipmay be justified.
- Journal title
Res Publica
- Volume
6
- Issue
1
- Page numbers
73-92
- Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Place published
Netherlands
- File Attachments
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Attas_2000.pdf75.9 KB
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- Links
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http://www.springerlink.com/content/l01k3437232641q0/ (http://www.springerlink.com/content/l01k3437232641q0/)
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- Economic sectors
Agriculture and horticulture workers, Occupations in services - Domestic work, Sales and service occupations - general, Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations - general, Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations - general, Labourers in food, beverage and associated products processing, Dancers, and Other
- Content types
Policy analysis
- Target groups
Policymakers, Researchers, Unions, and NGOs/community groups/solidarity networks
- Regulation domains
Right to change employer, Right to choose place of residence, Labour standards, Health and safety at work, Health care & social services, Access to permanent status, Family reunification, Right to liberty, and Right to dignity
- Spheres of activity
Law and Philosophy
- Languages
English