Keywords
Derechos laborales, pobreza, derecho al trabajo, salarios, condiciones de trabajo, trabajadores pobres, Labour rights, Poverty, Right to work, Salaries, Working conditions, Working poor.
Employment and poverty: the case of "working por"
Abstract
Tradicionalmente el empleo ha sido el principal instrumento para luchar contra la pobreza y la exclusión social. Esto explica que el derecho al trabajo fuera incluido en la Declaración Universal de derechos y en algunos textos constitucionales. El derecho al trabajo ha sido interpretado como el derecho y el deber de tener un empleo. Sin embargo, una de las consecuencias de la crisis económica que se inició en 2008 ha sido la precarización de las condiciones de trabajo. Es en este contexto donde aparece el fenómeno de los trabajadores pobres, personas que aún estando empleadas no obtienen los ingresos suficientes para cubrir sus necesidades básicas. En este capítulo se analiza el fenómeno de los trabajadores pobres desde el enfoque de los derechos humanos, entendiendo que el trabajo es algo más amplio que el empleo. Se estudian algunas de las respuestas dadas a la pobreza laboral, entendiendo que esta es la negación del derecho al trabajo y el derecho a vivir con dignidad.
Traditionally employment was the best instrument to fight against poverty and social exclusion. This explains that the right to work had been included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and in some constitutions. Right to work has been interpreted as right to a job and a duty for all citizens. However, one of the consequences of the economic crisis started in 2008 has been the precarization of working conditions. In this context appears the phenomena of working poor, people who have a job but they do not earn enough money to cover their basic needs. In this chapter, the phenomenon of working poor will be studied from the perspective of human rights and a new interpretation of the right to work will be proposed in the sense that work is a wider concept than jobs. Some possible political responses to working poverty will also be studied. The phenomenon of working poor is understood as negation of the right to work and the human right to live with dignity.
Traditionally employment was the best instrument to fight against poverty and social exclusion. This explains that the right to work had been included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and in some constitutions. Right to work has been interpreted as right to a job and a duty for all citizens. However, one of the consequences of the economic crisis started in 2008 has been the precarization of working conditions. In this context appears the phenomena of working poor, people who have a job but they do not earn enough money to cover their basic needs. In this chapter, the phenomenon of working poor will be studied from the perspective of human rights and a new interpretation of the right to work will be proposed in the sense that work is a wider concept than jobs. Some possible political responses to working poverty will also be studied. The phenomenon of working poor is understood as negation of the right to work and the human right to live with dignity.
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