Research Catalog

Title

Challenging the market : the struggle to regulate work and income / edited by Jim Stanford and Leah F. Vosko.

Publication

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Stanford, Jim.
• Vosko, Leah F.

Description

ix, 387 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Labor market
• Labor policy
• Labor costs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Challenging the market : the struggle to regulate work and income / Jim Stanford and Leah F. Vosko -- 2. The NAIRU, labour market "flexibility," and full employment / Malcolm Sawyer -- 3. The causes of high unemployment : labour market sclerosis versus macroeconomic policy / Thomas I. Palley -- 4. Institutions and policies for labour market success in four small European countries / Peter Auer -- 5. Challenging segmentation in South Africa's labour market : "regulated flexibility" or flexible regulation? / Marlea Clarke -- 6. The Russian reforms and their impact on labour : a transition to what? / Manfred Bienefeld, Tatyana Chetvernina and Liana Lakunina -- 7. Deregulating industrial relations in the apparel sector : the decree system in Quebec / Michel Grant -- 8. European labour market regulation : the case of European works councils / Michael John Whittall -- 9. Racializing the division of labour : neoliberal restructuring and the economic segregation of Canada's racialized groups / Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- 10. Towards perfect flexibility : youth as an industrial reserve army for the new economy / Stephen McBride -- 11. The crisis in rural labour markets : failures and challenges for regulation / Martha MacDonald -- 12. Technology, gender, and regulation : call centres in New Brunswick / Tom Good and Joan McFarland -- 13. Neoliberalism, social democracy, and the struggle to improve labour standards for part-time workers in Saskatchewan / Dave Broad, Della MacNeil and Sandra Salhani Gamble -- 14. Labour market deregulation and the U.S. living-wage movement / Stephanie Luce -- 15. Gendered resistance : organizing Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles / Cynthia J. Cranford -- 16. Labour's current organizational struggles in Argentina : towards a new beginning? / Viviana Patroni -- 17. Critical times for French employment regulation : the 35-hour week and the challenge to social partnership / Steve Jefferys -- 18. How credible are international corporate labour codes? : monitoring global production chains / Don Wells.

ISBN

• 0773527265
• 0773527273 (pbk.)

OCLC

• OCM54892271
• SCSB-5124605

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries