Rethinking workplace regulation
Subtitle: beyond the standard contract of employment
By: Katherine V.W. Stone and Harry Arthurs, editors
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780871548597; 9781610448031
Subjects: Labor contract
Description: Today, roughly 70 percent of all visas for legal immigration are reserved for family members of permanent residents or American citizens. Family reunification, policies that seek to preserve family unity during or following migration, is a central pillar of current immigration law, but it has existed in some form in American statutes since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this work the author, a sociologist delves into the fascinating history of family reunification to examine how and why our conceptions of family have shaped immigration, the meaning of race, and the way we see ourselves as a country. Drawing from a rich set of archival sources, the book shows that even the most draconian anti-immigrant laws, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, contained provisions for family unity, albeit for a limited class of immigrants.

Arguments for uniting families separated by World War II and the Korean War also shaped immigration debates and the policies that led to the landmark 1965 Immigration Act. Here the author argues that debating the contours of family offers a ready set of symbols and meanings to frame national identity and to define who counts as "one of us." Talk about family, however, does not inevitably lead to more liberal immigration policies. Welfare reform in the 1990s, for example, placed limits on benefits for immigrant families, and recent debates over the children of undocumented immigrants fanned petitions to rescind birthright citizenship.The book shows that the centrality of family unity in the immigration discourse often limits the discussion about the goals, functions and roles of immigration and prevents a broader definition of American identity. Too often, studies of immigration policy focus on individuals or particular ethnic or racial groups.

With its original and wide-ranging inquiry, this work shifts the analysis in immigration studies toward the family, a largely unrecognized but critical component in the regulation of immigrants' experience in America. -- From publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The transformation of employment regimes : a world-wide challenge / Katherine V.W. Stone & Harry Arthurs; title: Changes in the labor market and the nature of employment in western countries / Morley Gunderson; title: Labor market regulation and the global economic crisis / Robert Kuttner; title: The decline of the standard contract of employment in the United States : a socio-regulatory perspective / Katherine V. W. Stone; title: Burying caesar : what was the standard employment contract? / Mark Freedland; title: "The employment contract is dead : hurrah for the work contract!" : a European perspective / Bruno Caruso; title: Erosion, exhaustion, or renewal? : new forms of collective bargaining in Germany / Thomas Haipeter; title: Flexibility and security in post-standard employment relations : the case of the Netherlands / Jelle Visser; title: Regional and local level experiments for labor market policy in Europe / Ida Regalia; title: New forms of dispute resolution in an era of unstable and diversified employment : why did Japan introduce the labor tribunal system? / Takashi Araki; title: Organizational primacy after the demise of the organizational career : employment conflict in a post-standard contract world / Alexander J.S. Colvin; title: Flexibility and security in employment regulation : what can be learned from the Danish case? / Thomas Bredgaard; title: The regulation of private sector and public sector supply chains : an australian contribution to cross-national legal learning / Michael Rawling & John Howe; title: Organizing non-standard workers in Japan : the role of old players and new players / Keisuke Nakamura & Michio Nitta; title: Safety nets and transition assistance : continuity and change in a "liberal" welfare state / Anthony O'Donnell; title: Flexible work, flexible pensions : labor market change and the evolution of retirement savings / Kendra Strauss; title: New approaches to work-family balance and gender equality : pension reform and antidiscrimination law / Julie C. Suk; title: Social rights in changing labor markets : caring for caregivers in the European Union / Julia López, Consuelo Chacartegui, & César G. Cantón; title: Cross-national legal learning : the uses of comparative labor knowledge, law and policy / Harry Arthurs; title: The decline in the standard employment contract: a review of the evidence / Katherine V.W. Stone.