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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783794903321

Autore

Stanford Jim

Titolo

Challenging the market [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle to regulate work and income / / edited by Jim Stanford and Leah F. Vosko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, Que., : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-86194-8

9786612861949

0-7735-7202-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StanfordJim

VoskoLeah F

Disciplina

331.12

Soggetti

Labor market

Labor policy

Labor costs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- ; 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 sturggles 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.

Sommario/riassunto

A History for the Future will be of interest to all those who reflect on the relationship between memory, giving meaning to the past, writing history, and a society's common aspirations. The original French edition, Passer à l'avenir, won Quebec's Prix Spirale for the best non-fiction book of 2000.