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

• Author: International Working Group on Labour Market Regulation and Deregulation.
• TeilnehmendeR: Stanford, Jim.; Vosko, Leah F.; International Working Group on Labour Market Regulation and Deregulation.; ProQuest (Firm); Challenging the Market Conference (2001 : Toronto, Ont.)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: ix, 387 p. :; ill.
• Notes: 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

Challenging the market: the struggle to regulate work and income / Jim Stanford, Leah F. Vosko -- PART ONE: THE CHANGING ECONOMICS OF LABOUR MARKET REGULATIONS -- The NAIRU, labour market "flexibility," and full employment / Malcolm Sawyer -- The causes of high unemployment: labour market sclerosis versus macroeconomic policy / Thomas I. Palley -- Institutions and policies for labour market success in four small European countries / Peter Auer -- PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTS IN LABOUR MARKET STRUCTURE -- Challenging segmentation in South Africa's labour market: "regulated flexibility" or flexible regulation? / Marlea Clarke -- The Russian reforms and their impact on labour: a transition to what? / Manfred Bienfeld ... [et al.] -- Deregulating industrial relations in the apparel sector: the decree system in Quebec / Michel Grant -- European labour market regulation: the case of European councils / Michael John Whittall -- PART THREE: THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF LABOUR MARKET DEREGULATION -- Racializing the division of lbaour: neoliberal restructuring and the economic segregation of Canada's racialized groups / Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- Towards perfect flexibility: youth as an industrial reserve army for the new economy / Stephen McBride -- The crisis in rural labour markets: failures and challenges for regulation / Martha MacDonald -- Technology, gender, and regulation: call centres in New Brunswick / Tom Good, Joan McFarland -- Neoliberalism, social democracy, and the struggle to improve labour standards for part-time workers in Saskatchewan / Dave Broad ... [et al.] -- PART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS -- Labour market deregulation and the U.S. living-wage movement / Stephanie Luce -- Gendered resistance: organizing justice for janitors in Los Angeles / Cynthia J. Cranford -- Labour's current organizational sturggles in Argentina: towards a new beginning? / Viviana Patroni -- Critical times for French employment regulation: the 35-hour week and the challenge to social partnership / Steve Jefferys -- How credible are international corporate labour codes? Monitoring global production chains / Don Wells.