Book title
The Right to Strike Reimagined
Expanding the Right to Strike to Include Informal and Precarious Workers
Abstract
The Chapter evaluates the deep structural flaws in traditional labor laws that exclude non-standard workers from exercising collective industrial action. The chapter identifies how current regulatory models and statutory definitions of employment fundamentally depend on standard, bilateral employer-employee relationships. Because informal, contract, gig, and precarious workers operate outside this binary framework, they face severe legal barriers and systemic vulnerabilities that strip away their collective bargaining leverage. To counter this marginalization, the authors argue that the right to strike must be reframed internationally as an "enabling right". Expanding this legal framework allows all individuals within the modern labor ecosystem to function as protected, active participants in industrial relations and wider democratic society
Recommended Citation
Yun, Aelim; Mehta, Monika; Sankaran, Kamala; and Broembsen, Marlese Von, "Expanding the Right to Strike to Include Informal and Precarious Workers" (2026). Book Chapters. 46.
https://repository.nls.ac.in/book_chapters/46
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2026