Creative labour regulation : indeterminacy and protection in an uncertain world / edited by Deirdre McCann [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCann, Deirdre M.

Series:

Advances in Labour Studies

Advances in labour studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor laws and legislation.

Labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book identifies three central challenges to contemporary labour regulation: intensifying labour market fragmentation; complex interactions between labour market institutions; and obstacles to effective enforcement. International in scope, the volume includes chapters on both advanced economies (Europe and the United States) and the developing world (Argentina, Cambodia, South Africa and Viet Nam).

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Regulatory Indeterminacy and Protection in Contemporary Labour Markets: Innovation in Research and Policy; Introduction; Regulating the fragmented labour market: theory, doctrine and enforcement; Institutional interactions: the case of the minimum wage; Figure 1.1 The dynamic relationship between minimum wages and collective bargaining; Effective implementation: new theoretical and empirical approaches to enforcement indeterminacy; Conclusions; Notes

ReferencesPART II: REGULATING THE FRAGMENTED LABOUR MARKET: EMPIRICAL AND DOCTRINAL INSIGHTS; 2 Fissured Employment: Implications for Achieving Decent Work; Who's in charge? Vignettes from the modern workplace; Fissured employment and its consequences; Building blocks of the fissured workplace; Figure 2.1 Labour standards violation rates (per cent in violation) in selected fissured industries; Table 2.1 Fissured employment relationships in selected industries; Fissured employment as a driver of indeterminacy; Franchising as a distinctive form of fissured employment; Franchising in fast food

Effects of fast food franchising on workplace labour standardsRebalancing the fissured workplace; Figure 2.2 Effects of franchising on employer back wages and compliance, US fast food industry, top 20 brands; Rethinking responsibility in a fissured workplace; Rethinking enforcement; Conclusions; Notes; References; 3 Regulating for Decent Work and the Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations; Introduction; 'Regulating for decent work' and the 'legal construction of personal work relations': definitions and interactions

'Legal construction of personal work relations': doctrinal and regulatory perspectivesThe broad domain of personal work relations; The ideas of the personal work nexus and the personal work profile; The idea of differential integration of layers of regulation; Conclusions: 'regulating for decent work' and the 'legal construction of personal work relations' - normative purposes and empirical methodology; Normative purposes; Empirical methodologies; Notes; References; PART III: INSTITUTIONAL INTERACTIONS: THE CASE OF MINIMUM WAGE REGULATION

4 Employment, Inequality and Minimum Wages in ArgentinaIntroduction; The minimum wage controversy; The international debates; Minimum wages in Latin America; The minimum wage in Argentina: history and recent evolution; Evaluating minimum wages and their impacts; Data; Table 4.1 Modifications of the minimum wage; Who is affected by minimum wages?; Minimum wages versus average wages: too high or too low?; Table 4.2 Distribution of employees according to their salary levels in relation to the legal minimum (%); Minimum wages and informal workers; Table 4.3 Evolution of the monthly minimum wage

Table 4.4 Wage inequality

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 15, 2013).

ISBN:

92-2-127821-2

OCLC:

867929431