Regulating for Decent Work : New Directions in Labour Market Regulation.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 New Directions in Labour Regulation Research; Part I: Theories and Perspectives; 2 The Evidence-Based Case for Labour Regulation; 3 Precarious Employment and the Problem of SER-Centrism in Regulating for Decent Work; 4 The Growth of Extended 'Entry Tournaments' and the Decline of Institutionalized Occupational Labour Markets in Britain; Part II: Recent Country Experiences; 5 Laws or Luck? Understanding Rising Formality in Brazil in the 2000s; 6 Labour Market Regulations and the Welfare of Indonesian Workers.

7 The Enactment of Three New Labour Laws in China: Unintended Consequences and the Emergence of 'New' Actors in Employment RelationsPart III: Old Challenges, New Techniques; 8 Short Time Compensation as an Employment Stabilization Policy; 9 Gender and the Minimum Wage; 10 Decent Work for Domestic Workers: An Achievable Goal or Wishful Thinking?; Part IV: Elements of Effective Regulation; 11 The Impact of Labour Regulations: Measuring the Effectiveness of Legal Norms in a Developing Country.

12 Governing Regulatory Discretion: Innovation and Accountability in Two Models of Labour Inspection Work13 A Diagnostic Methodology for Regulating Decent Work; Index.

This book, the first in the new series Advances in Labour Studies, is an international and interdisciplinary response to the neoliberal ideologies that have shaped labour market regulation in recent decades. International in scope, it includes chapters on both advanced economies (Canada, Europe, United States) and the developing world (Brazil, China, Indonesia, Tanzania). Co-published with Palgrave Macmillan.

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