Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?

Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?
Author: Chris Warhurst
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230370233

An edited book in the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment Series that is associated with the annual International Labour Process Conference, it focuses on job quality: debates, developments, issues and trends; workplace practice and interventions. Written by world-leading academics, it contains cutting-edge research.

Voluntary Initiatives and the New Politics of Corporate Greening

Voluntary Initiatives and the New Politics of Corporate Greening
Author: Robert B. Gibson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781551112183

"The diverse range of authors highlight the inherent complexities and controversial nature of the use of corporate voluntary initiatives for environmental improvements. This is an excellent reference book." - Dianne Humphries, Pollution Probe

Regulating Flexibility

Regulating Flexibility
Author: Mark P. Thomas
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-04-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0773576762

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.

Neoliberal Parliamentarism

Neoliberal Parliamentarism
Author: Tom McDowell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1487528116

In Neoliberal Parliamentarism, Tom McDowell provides an alternative approach to understanding the decline of parliament at the Ontario legislature, an approach that highlights the politics of neoliberalism and the significant impact it has had over the last four decades. McDowell offers a structural critique of parliament, claiming that restrictions on the legislature cannot be separated from the ascendance of neoliberalism as the dominant social and policy paradigm in the province. Tracking the evolution of procedure at the Ontario Legislature from 1981 to 2021, McDowell shows that, beginning in the early 1980s, the establishment of increasingly restrictive procedural rules was critical in securing the passage of controversial neoliberal restructuring policies. Further, he argues that the decades-long shift towards de-democratization and the concentration of political power in the executive ought to be understood in the context of neoliberalism’s rejection of parliamentary sovereignty and legal positivism. As an in-depth study of the implementation of neoliberalism policy on the political apparatus of Ontario, Neoliberal Parliamentarism is critical reading for scholars and students interested in the relationship between neoliberalism and de-democratization, the politics of Ontario, and parliamentary procedure more broadly.

Insurance as Governance

Insurance as Governance
Author: Richard V. Ericson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780802085740

Analyzes how the tactics and strategies of insurers help govern our "risk society". [back cover].

Alternatives Journal

Alternatives Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1998
Genre: Environmental policy
ISBN:

"Canadian environmental ideas & action" (varies).

General Conditions to Stimulate Job Creation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

General Conditions to Stimulate Job Creation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Author:
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997
Genre: Full employment policies
ISBN: 9789221098935

This report is concerned with policies, strategies, and programs for the creation of sustainable and productive jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises. It reviews the general characteristics, potential, and problems of the small and medium enterprise sector, provides an overview of recent employment trends and reviews data on qualitative aspects of small and medium enterprise employment, including working conditions, safety and health, and terms of employment. It also summarizes international experience to date in creating an enabling environment for growth and development, analyzes the services, institutions, and programs which support the emergence of a competitive and growing small and medium enterprise sector, provides an overview of international labor standards as they apply to this sector, and surveys the roles of governments, employers' and workers' organizations and other actors in small and medium enterprise promotion.