The social clause: reality or utopia

dc.contributor.advisorKalula, Evance
dc.contributor.authorHornung, Sophie Anne
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-08T11:35:06Z
dc.date.available2024-11-08T11:35:06Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.date.updated2024-07-11T09:24:27Z
dc.description.abstractFor my final work at the University of Cape Town, I wanted to find a topic which encompassed the issues I studied during my one year in South Africa. The Social Clause turned out to be the perfect issue for my dissertation because it embraced three of the four courses I followed • Human rights, with the human side that underlies the issue; • Labour Law, because productivity is increasingly dictating labour conditions for "thousands and thousands of workers; • Trade Law, in the sense that international trade tends towards the elimination of borders and seeks. to maximise profits, to the detriment of an ethical approach to working conditions. The concept of the Social Clause, which was abstract to me when I began my work, · became familiar to me within weeks. The controversies surrounding the Social Clause, as well as the topicality of this issue at recent summits and other political meetings, showed me that people are not always very aware of what is understood by the term « Social Clause». Therefore, I decided to examine in my dissertation some of the questions and opinions relative to the Social Clause, that arise at the institutional, political and academic levels. I tried to give lectors an overview by summarising the current debates on whether or not to introduce a social aspect in trade, and how to compel states and other economic actors to « play the game » of the Social Clause. In other words, the aim of this dissertation is to tackle the questions and to raise all the other issues ensuing from the Social Clause. My work is far from being complete, exhaustive or innovative on this issue which divides even the economists, lawyers and experts of labour rights. But if I have shed some light on certain realities of the economic world, or simply on the problems of society and its new rules resulting from globalisation, my task will have been fulfilled.
dc.identifier.apacitationHornung, S. A. (1997). <i>The social clause: reality or utopia</i>. (). ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40699en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHornung, Sophie Anne. <i>"The social clause: reality or utopia."</i> ., ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40699en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHornung, S.A. 1997. The social clause: reality or utopia. . ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40699en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Hornung, Sophie Anne AB - For my final work at the University of Cape Town, I wanted to find a topic which encompassed the issues I studied during my one year in South Africa. The Social Clause turned out to be the perfect issue for my dissertation because it embraced three of the four courses I followed • Human rights, with the human side that underlies the issue; • Labour Law, because productivity is increasingly dictating labour conditions for "thousands and thousands of workers; • Trade Law, in the sense that international trade tends towards the elimination of borders and seeks. to maximise profits, to the detriment of an ethical approach to working conditions. The concept of the Social Clause, which was abstract to me when I began my work, · became familiar to me within weeks. The controversies surrounding the Social Clause, as well as the topicality of this issue at recent summits and other political meetings, showed me that people are not always very aware of what is understood by the term « Social Clause». Therefore, I decided to examine in my dissertation some of the questions and opinions relative to the Social Clause, that arise at the institutional, political and academic levels. I tried to give lectors an overview by summarising the current debates on whether or not to introduce a social aspect in trade, and how to compel states and other economic actors to « play the game » of the Social Clause. In other words, the aim of this dissertation is to tackle the questions and to raise all the other issues ensuing from the Social Clause. My work is far from being complete, exhaustive or innovative on this issue which divides even the economists, lawyers and experts of labour rights. But if I have shed some light on certain realities of the economic world, or simply on the problems of society and its new rules resulting from globalisation, my task will have been fulfilled. DA - 1997 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Law LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 1997 T1 - The social clause: reality or utopia TI - The social clause: reality or utopia UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40699 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/40699
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHornung SA. The social clause: reality or utopia. []. ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law, 1997 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40699en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Commercial Law
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Law
dc.subjectLaw
dc.titleThe social clause: reality or utopia
dc.typeThesis / Dissertation
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelLLM
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