The politics of Brexit : European free movement of labour and labour standards / Charles Woolfson.

• This paper attempts to reassess the Brexit debate in the UK over immigration and free movement of labour in terms of the politics of austerity. It advances a progressive case for Brexit based on regaining national sovereignty to enable the effective defence of national labour standards outside of the neoliberal European project. The issue of labour standards is a cause that paradoxically the current Conservative administration has sought to champion, although on a highly contestable basis. In the UK general election of 2017, the Labour Party has significantly advanced its position on the basis of an anti-austerity program while the Conservative government has entered into a likely terminal crisis. It is argued that rejecting membership of the supranational European Union has the potential to advance labour rights further in an inclusive and non-xenophobic way. 

Ämnesord

Fri rörlighet för personer  (sao)

Migration  (sao)

Arbetsmarknad  (sao)

Social Sciences  (hsv)

Other Social Sciences  (hsv)

International Migration and Ethnic Relations  (hsv)

Samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Annan samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Internationell Migration och Etniska Relationer (IMER)  (hsv)

Social Sciences  (hsv)

Other Social Sciences  (hsv)

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary  (hsv)

Samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Annan samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Emigration and immigration  (LCSH)

Labor market  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

EU-länderna  (sao)

Institutionsnamn

Europeiska unionen

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Brexit

free movement

labour standards

austerity

European Union

national sovereignty