Travail de recherche/Working paper
| Résumé : | Ecological concerns question the productivist model our societies inherited from the industrial revolution. In this context, our paper intends to explore the relationship between social law and productivism. We show that labour and social security law also has an ambiguous relationship with productivism, as it both endorses the growth paradigm and relativizes it. On the one hand, labour and social security law is strongly rooted in the growth model: it was built around the figure of labour traded on the market, considered the best way to ensure the continuous increase in production. But on the other hand, it carries within it the seeds of a relativization of the productivist logic, by recognizing, admittedly at a still very early stage, the importance for the community of non-productive activities. In a last and more prospective part, we reflect upon the possibility of an eco-social citizenship. In this perspective we envisage the emancipation of social law from the productivist model, through the progressive extension of the legal mechanisms that value socially useful activities which are not valued by the market. |
