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Economic civil rights signify those rights for which working class and tradeunion activists fought against bourgeois system of power. These include
workers right to form their union, expand its activities, right to bargaining
and right to strike. These rights sought to challenge the dominance of
capitalist system.
In his work The Nation State and Violence (1985), Giddens has conceded
the contemporary capitalism is different from 19th century capitalism. Labour
movements have played a prominent role in its transformation. In most of the
capitalist countries of today, welfare capitalism has come into existence
which safeguards the civil rights of the working class. These civil rights have
helped to consolidate industrial capitalist system.
Thus, Giddens has departed from the original tenets of Marxism and has
come round the view that citizenship rights can be maintained within the
structure of liberal democracy.
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