TY - BOOK AU - Langille,Brian TI - The capability approach to labour law T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780191873447 (ebook) : AV - K1705 U1 - 344.01 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Nussbaum, Martha Craven, KW - Sen, Amartya, KW - Labor laws and legislation KW - Capabilities approach (Social sciences) N1 - Previously issued in print: 2019; Includes index; Specialized N2 - Forty years ago Amartya Sen delivered his Tanner Lecture, 'Equality of What?', in which he introduced to the world a novel approach to the idea of equality by way of the notion of 'basic capability' as 'a morally relevant dimension'. We can now see with hindsight that Sen's argument - that we should focus upon equality of basic capabilities ('a person being able to do certain basic things') - launched what has become an academic armada now proceeding under the flag of 'the capability approach'. While that flag has ventured far and wide and engaged many area of inquiry, this volume of essays explores how the capability approach (the CA) might shed light upon labour law UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836087.001.0001 ER -