Tillyjevo upozorenje

In: Politicka misao, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 116-122

Abstract

The author sets forth & comments on the provocative argument by Charles Tilly in Globalization Threatens Labor's Rights (1995). Tilly's argument focuses on the problems ensuing from the emergence of global economy. He claims that global capitalism represents a challenge to the importance of national states. Labor rights are protected at the level of national states; consequently, the process jeopardizing national states also threatens the rights they protect. The most intriguing part of Tilly's theory is the link between labor rights & democracy. He wants to show how the process of the democratization of the European national states went "hand in hand" with the struggle for labor rights. Workers were potential voters, & their movement insisted on democratization. Labor rights & democracy were linked during their rise & will be linked in their fall. The breakdown of labor rights is the first sign of the breakdown of the Western-type liberal democracies. The author shows how Tilly's exhortation hurts the postsocialist countries more than the functional Western-type national states. 8 References. Adapted from the source document.