LABOUR, IS IT A “THING” IN THE JURIDICAL SENSE? Cover Image

ESTE MUNCA UN „LUCRU” JURIDIC?
LABOUR, IS IT A “THING” IN THE JURIDICAL SENSE?

Author(s): Iulian Dobrinescu
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Philosophy of Law, Labour and Social Security Law
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: things; patrimonial rights; labour; intangible property; goods;

Summary/Abstract: Labour, is it a “thing” in the juridical sense? An answer to this question has been given in the affirmative recently. This is largely an error, as it entails a confusion of juridical categories and a failure to distinguish between distinct notions. Such a view, moreover, represents an unnecessary break with established views on how to define “things”. Interestingly, this reduction of labour to the status of a tradable thing is connected to a turn towards the “immaterial" in the thought of some jurists, who are beginning to conflate notions such as “goods”, “patrimonial rights” and “incorporeal things”.

  • Issue Year: 68/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 78-105
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Romanian