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Challenging the market : the struggle to regulate work and income
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- ISBN: 0773572023
- ISBN: 9780773572027
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 387 pages)
remote - Publisher: Montréal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Papers prepared by members of an International Working Group on Labour Market Regulation and Deregulation and presented at the Challenging the Market Conference, Toronto, in June 2001--P. [vii]. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Challenging the market: the struggle to regulate work and income / Jim Stanford, Leah F. Vosko -- PART ONE: THE CHANGING ECONOMICS OF LABOUR MARKET REGULATIONS -- The NAIRU, labour market "flexibility," and full employment / Malcolm Sawyer -- The causes of high unemployment: labour market sclerosis versus macroeconomic policy / Thomas I. Palley -- Institutions and policies for labour market success in four small European countries / Peter Auer -- PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTS IN LABOUR MARKET STRUCTURE -- Challenging segmentation in South Africa's labour market: "regulated flexibility" or flexible regulation? / Marlea Clarke -- The Russian reforms and their impact on labour: a transition to what? / Manfred Bienfeld [and others] -- Deregulating industrial relations in the apparel sector: the decree system in Quebec / Michel Grant -- European labour market regulation: the case of European councils / Michael John Whittall -- PART THREE: THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF LABOUR MARKET DEREGULATION -- Racializing the division of lbaour: neoliberal restructuring and the economic segregation of Canada's racialized groups / Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- Towards perfect flexibility: youth as an industrial reserve army for the new economy / Stephen McBride -- The crisis in rural labour markets: failures and challenges for regulation / Martha MacDonald -- Technology, gender, and regulation: call centres in New Brunswick / Tom Good, Joan McFarland -- Neoliberalism, social democracy, and the struggle to improve labour standards for part-time workers in Saskatchewan / Dave Broad [and others] -- PART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS -- Labour market deregulation and the U.S. living-wage movement / Stephanie Luce -- Gendered resistance: organizing justice for janitors in Los Angeles / Cynthia J. Cranford -- Labour's current organizational struggles in Argentina: towards a new beginning? / Viviana Patroni -- Critical times for French employment regulation: the 35-hour week and the challenge to social partnership / Steve Jefferys -- How credible are international corporate labour codes? Monitoring global production chains / Don Wells. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Labor market Labor policy Labor costs |
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