Challenge of the times

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].

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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