Meeting the challenge of precarious work [electronic resource] : a workers' agenda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

International Labour Office.

Series:

International journal of labour research ; vol.5, no.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work.

Collective bargaining.

Physical Description:

168 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva : International Labour Office, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research examines the trends and the reasons that lie behind this expansion, as well as their effects on workers and various segments of the labour force such as youth and women and inequality. It also considers the consequences of this development on workers’ capacity to organize, and what strategies trade unions can envisage to reverse this trend.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Editorial: ILO standards and precarious work: Strengths, weaknesses and potential

Establishing rights in the disposable jobs regime

Implications for union work of the trend towards precarization of work

Trade union responses to precarious work in seven European countries

Negotiating parity for precarious workers

Strengthening the collective bargaining rights of precarious workers under US labour and employment law

Precarious work and the exercise of freedom of association and collective bargaining: Current ILO jurisprudence

Precarious work and access to collective bargaining: What are the legal obstacles?

Precarious work: An international problem.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

92-2-126908-6

OCLC:

854520695