Historically, the concept of labour started as an objective basis of value and evolved into a notion of subjective economic utility. This article proposes an open-border labour process to be initiated in connection with the broader trade liberalisation trend. This would thoroughly restructure the current concept of labour as a mere immobile input into the production of goods and services. In the proposed model of borderless industrial denizenship, labour movement would eventually be freed from the nation-state border constraints that undermine the enforcement of labour and other related human rights standards. A causal layered analysis maps the theoretical framework shift from a hard-bordered model of labour migration to a soft-bordered one.

Industrial citizenship Denizenship Human movement Causal layered analysis Global rights De-nationalisation labour migration

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