Challenging the market
Subtitle: the struggle to regulate work and income
By: edited by Jim Stanford and Leah F. Vosko.
Contributors: Stanford, Jim.; Vosko, Leah F.; International Working Group on Labour Market Regulation and Deregulation.; Challenging the Market Conference (2001 : Toronto, Ont.)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Labor market.; Labor policy.; Labor costs.; Marché du travail.; Travail -- Politique gouvernementale.; Main-d'oeuvre -- Coût.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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]
Table of contents: title: Challenging the market: the struggle to regulate work and income -- Jim Stanford, -- Leah F. Vosko -- PART ONE: THE CHANGING ECONOMICS OF LABOUR MARKET REGULATIONS; title: The NAIRU, labour market "flexibility," and full employment -- Malcolm Sawyer; title: The causes of high unemployment: labour market sclerosis versus macroeconomic policy -- Thomas I. Palley; title: Institutions and policies for labour market success in four small European countries -- Peter Auer -- PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTS IN LABOUR MARKET STRUCTURE; title: Challenging segmentation in South Africa's labour market: "regulated flexibility" or flexible regulation? -- Marlea Clarke; title: The Russian reforms and their impact on labour: a transition to what? -- Manfred Bienfeld ... [et al.]; title: Deregulating industrial relations in the apparel sector: the decree system in Quebec -- Michel Grant; title: European labour market regulation: the case of European councils -- Michael John Whittall -- PART THREE: THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF LABOUR MARKET DEREGULATION; title: Racializing the division of lbaour: neoliberal restructuring and the economic segregation of Canada's racialized groups -- Grace-Edward Galabuzi; title: Towards perfect flexibility: youth as an industrial reserve army for the new economy -- Stephen McBride; title: The crisis in rural labour markets: failures and challenges for regulation -- Martha MacDonald; title: Technology, gender, and regulation: call centres in New Brunswick -- Tom Good, -- Joan McFarland; title: Neoliberalism, social democracy, and the struggle to improve labour standards for part-time workers in Saskatchewan -- Dave Broad ... [et al.] -- PART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS; title: Labour market deregulation and the U.S. living-wage movement -- Stephanie Luce; title: Gendered resistance: organizing justice for janitors in Los Angeles -- Cynthia J. Cranford; title: Labour's current organizational sturggles in Argentina: towards a new beginning? -- Viviana Patroni; title: Critical times for French employment regulation: the 35-hour week and the challenge to social partnership -- Steve Jefferys; title: How credible are international corporate labour codes? Monitoring global production chains -- Don Wells.