Social Norms and Legal Norms at Work
The Social Norms and Legal Norms at Work project is undertaken in collaboration with Wolfgang Streeck at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Dukes and Streeck explore the relationship between informal norms of industrial justice, as generated by workers in occupational communities, and formal norms in labour law. One strand of the research focuses on the concepts of contract and status, investigating how the meaning of these concepts has changed over time and what they can tell us about recent developments in the field of employment relations. Another looks to the work of Philip Selznick and asks what we can learn or retain from that work in an effort to reconstruct industrial justice at a time when several of the pillars of industrial citizenship have crumbled.