Regulating flexibility : the political economy of employment standards / / Mark P. Thomas

• Autore: Thomas Mark P (Mark Preston), <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca : , : McGill-Queens University Press, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages)
• Disciplina: 344.7101
• Soggetto topico: Labor laws and legislation - Social aspects - Canada; Labor laws and legislation - Canada; Manpower policy - Canada
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "Labour flexibility" and the political economy of employment standards -- The origins of flexible employment standards -- Recessions, reforms, and labour market transformation, 1970s-1990s -- Back to the sixty-hour work week : flexible employment standards for the "new economy" -- Working for better standards? Labour market regulation in a global economy.
• Sommario/riassunto: In a contemporary labour market that includes growing levels of precarious employment, the regulation of minimum employment standards is intricately connected to conditions of economic security. With a focus on the role of neoliberal labour market policies in promoting "flexible" employment standards legislation - particularly in the areas of minimum wages and working time - Mark Thomas argues that shifts toward "flexible" legislation have played a central role in producing patterns of labour market inequality. Using an analytic framework that situates employment standards within the context of the broader social relations that shape processes of labour market regulation, Thomas constructs a case study of employment standards legislation in Ontario from 1884 to 2004. Drawing from political economy scholarship, and using a qualitative research methodology, he analyses class, race, and gender dimensions of legislative developments, highlighting the ways in which shifts towards "flexible" employment standards have exacerbated longstanding racialized and gendered inequities. Regulating Flexibility argues that in order to counter current trends towards increased insecurity, employment standards should not be treated as a secondary form of labour protection but as a cornerstone in a progressive project of labour market re-regulation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Regulating flexibility
• ISBN: 1-282-86720-2; 9786612867200; 0-7735-7676-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789832403321
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