Root-cause regulation
Subtitle: protecting work and workers in the twenty-first century
By: Michael J. Piore and Andrew Schrank
Contributors: Schrank, Andrew, author
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780674979604
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Labor inspection; Law and legislation; Labor laws and legislation
Description: Why does the United States assign responsibility for different aspects of labor and employment law (e.g., wages and hours, safety and health, collective bargaining, discrimination, etc.) to different agencies, when France, Spain, and their former colonies assign all aspects of labor and employment law to a single agency? Does the US approach, which essentially reduces to "one inspector per law," perform better or worse than the "Latin" model, which implies "one inspector per firm?" And what are the implications for the division of labor in the public sector more generally? Root-Cause Regulation addresses these questions by comparing the evolution of labor market regulation in developed and developing countries over the course of the past century. The results speak not only to the protection of work and workers in the twenty-first century but to the organization of the public sector more generally.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The United States; title: France; title: Spain; title: Latin American variants; title: Managing discretion; title: Developing guidelines.