ABSTRACT
This chapter tells that existing studies of organizations, occupations, and work offer many conceptual and theoretical insights relevant to the analysis and realization of human rights. It also deal with the implications of a human rights-oriented praxis for the study of organizations, occupations, and work, and also identifies some central theoretical puzzles that tie the fields together and tells that these central puzzles have profound implications for the realization of human rights. The labor movement has lost much of its power to protect even workers rights. The chapter states that it is important to sustain forms of sociological analysis that examine and critique the larger forces shaping the fields of economic action. The rational model, in new forms such as transaction cost economics, still legitimates these developments. Studies of organizations, occupations, and work have never been more important. The history of research and theory in these fields includes many challenges to the dominance of the rational model.
