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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Description: "Why do we think about some practices as work, and not others? Why do we classify certain capacities as economically valuable skills, and others as innate characteristics? What, moreover, is the role of law in shaping our answers to these questions?"These are just some of the queries explored by Dr. Zoe Adams's analysis of the legal construction, and regulation, of work, in her book The Legal Concept of Work (Oxford University Press, 2022).Spanning from the 14th century to the present day, the book explores how the role of law and legal concepts comes to co...