Title :

The Construction of Workers’ Rights Consciousness through Legal Intermediations: The Case of Employment Discrimination in Belgium

Author(s) :

Lejeune, Aude [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales - UMR 8026 [CERAPS]
Orianne, Jean-François [Auteur]
Université de Liège

Journal title :

International Journal of Discrimination and the Law

Volume number :

14

Pages :

221-243

Publication date :

2014

English keyword(s) :

Consciousness
discrimination
intermediation
lawyering
litigation
workplace

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique

English abstract : [en]

Through their different encounters with union, court and government equality agency lawyers, workers report diverse understandings of their personal experience of injustice in the workplace. This article examines workers’ ...
Show more >Through their different encounters with union, court and government equality agency lawyers, workers report diverse understandings of their personal experience of injustice in the workplace. This article examines workers’ experiences of discrimination and the role legal professionals play in litigating these issues in Belgium. Bringing together legal and rights consciousness studies and the sociology of intermediation and tracking different stages in the construction of discrimination cases, from the moment when a future litigant describes an event as an injustice to the moment when the judge recognizes a discriminatory behaviour (or conversely, dismisses a case), we suggest several possible empirical explanations of the way in which interactions with legal intermediaries affect workers’ rights consciousness. Because we refer to sociolegal studies from common law countries, this article also calls into question how best to import these studies to assist in analysing legal mobilisations and legal consciousness in continental Europe.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

CNRS
Université de Lille

Collections :

• Centre d'Études et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales (CERAPS) - UMR 8026

Submission date :

2019-10-23T11:33:27Z
2020-01-23T15:35:45Z
2020-05-13T12:10:04Z
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