Social property
Social property (French: Propriété sociale ) is a term coined by the French sociologist Robert Castel for the legal guarantees associated with the employee situation.
Castel understands it to be an equivalent to private property , which for John Locke was the most important prerequisite for full social recognition as an individual with civil status. A citizen was therefore someone “who was both the owner of himself and the owner of goods”. In the early days of industrialization , the vast majority of non-owners had a socially extraterritorial status; as day laborers and wage workers, they did not belong to bourgeois society . Only the reforms implemented by the labor movement in a “long historical process of conflicts and compromises, struggles and negotiations” endowed the individual worker with guarantees under labor and social law that made him the “social owner” of rights.
Castel currently sees social property in post-Fordist capitalism endangered by mass unemployment and increasing precariousness of employment.
literature
- Robert Castel: The Metamorphoses of the Social Question. A chronicle of wage labor . UKV, Constance 1995; in particular Chapter 6: Social property and Chapter 7: The wage labor society .
- Robert Castel: The crisis of work. New uncertainties and the future of the individual . Hamburger Edition , Hamburg 2011.