Self-employed workers organize : law, policy, and unions / Cynthia J. Cranford ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cranford, Cynthia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-employed--Labor unions--Organizing--Canada--Case studies.

Self-employed.

Self-employed--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through case studies of newspaper carriers, rural route mail couriers, personal care workers, and freelance editors - four groups who have led pioneering efforts to organize - the authors provide a window into the ways political and economic conditions interact with class, ethnicity, and gender to shape the meaning and strategies of working men and women and show how these strategies have changed over time. They argue that the experiences of these workers demonstrate a pressing need to expand collective bargaining rights to include them.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Star Wars: Newspaper Distribution Workers and the Possibilities and Limits of Collective Bargaining; 2 Deemed to be Entrepreneurs: Rural Route Mail Couriers and Canada Post; 3 From Precarious Workers to Unionized Employees and Back Again?: The Challenges of Organizing Personal-Care Workers in Ontario; 4 The Precarious Status of the Artist: Freelance Editors' Struggle for Collective Bargaining Rights; Conclusion: What Have We Learned?; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86339-8

9786612863394

0-7735-7273-2

OCLC:

923230260