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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806861203321

Titolo

Forging business-labour partnerships : the emergence of sector councils in Canada / / edited by Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-282-00847-1

9786612008474

1-4426-7501-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

331.0971

Soggetti

Industrial relations - Canada

Works councils - Canada

Livres numeriques.

Conference papers and proceedings.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe -- A historical perspective on sector councils / Gary Fletcher -- The development of sector councils in Canada : an economic perspective / Douglas A. Smith -- A labour perspective on sector councils / Kevin Hayes -- A Canadian business perspective on sectoral human resource councils / Jock A. Finlayson -- Human resources think for themselves : the experience of unions in the Sectoral Skills Council / David A. Wolfe and D'Arcy Martin -- The configuration of sectoral human resource initiatives in Quebec in the 1990s / Jean Charest --Ontario's experiment with sectoral initiatives : labour market and industrial policy, 1985-1996 / Neil Bradford -- The dynamics of joint governance : historical and institutional implications for sector councils / Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld -- Sector councils as models of shared governance in training and



adjustment / Carol Joyce Haddad -- The Canadian Steel Trade and Employment Congress : old-fashioned labour-management cooperation or an innovation in joint governance? / Anil Verma, Kai Lamertz, and Peter Warrian -- Program evaluation criteria applied to sector councils / Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe -- Sector councils and sectoral corporatism : viable? desirable? / Michael M. Atkinson and Cassandra W. Pervin -- The role of sector initiatives in the Canadian industrial relations system / Richard P. Chaykowski -- Conclusion : issues and lessons from the sector council experience / Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection brings together the views of economists, political scientists, and industrial-relations specialists on a major innovation in Canadian industiral relations: joint business-labour sector councils.