Protecting the future of work : new institutional arrangements for safeguarding labour standards / Barry Colfer [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colfer, Barry, author.

Series:

Trade Unionism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor laws and legislation.

Labor laws and legislation--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.

Summary:

Protecting the Future of Workanalyses the changes that worker protection institutions have undergone with the decline of traditional measures such as trade unions, mapping out the new systems and approaches to protect wages, conditions and job security.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Series Editors

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Endorsements

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards

Introduction

The Web of Rules

The Rise of Non-Standard Forms of Employment

From a Systemic Web of Rules Towards an Emergent Patchwork of Rules

The Contraction of the Traditional Web of Rules and Institutional Experimentation Developed in Response

Non-standard Forms of Employment Contracts

The Expansion of Sources of Labour Supply

Intensification of Exogenous Pressures

Separation of the Management of Labour from the Control of Labour

Replacement of the Employment Relationship

Progressing Understanding

Outline for the Rest of this Book

References

Chapter 1: Neoliberalism or Augmented Pluralism? Defending the Web of Rules in New Zealand, Australia and Ireland

New Zealand

Australia

Ireland

Conclusion

Chapter 2: The European Social Model and the Patchwork of Rules

The ESM

The Development of ESM

The EU's Turn to Austerity

Social and Political Consequences of the Lurch to Austerity and the Consequences for the Web of Rules

Consequences for the EU

Another ESM is Possible?

Chapter 3: Regulatory Experimentation and Gender Inequality

The Business Case for Addressing Gender Equality

Legal Experimentation for Addressing Gender Inequality

Collective Bargaining, Litigation and the Undervaluation of Women's Work

Chapter 4: The Limits of HRM in a New Era of Work: Bezonomics and the Amazon Effect

HRM and the (Purposeful) Limits to Understanding the Employment Relationship.

Exemplifying Tensions: The Case of Amazon

The Drive for Ultra-performance

Customer First: The Ends Justify the Means

Amazonian Work Experiences

Progressing Forward?

Chapter 5: Beyond Mobilisation at Mcdonald's: Towards Networked Organising

The Fight for 15

The SEIU and Its Discontents

#McStrike

Analysing #McStrike

Towards Networked Organising: Our Walmart

Chapter 6: The Rising Gig Economy in China: Implications for the Protection of Migrant Workers

Introduction - Development of the Gig Economy Worldwide and in China

A Transitioning Web of Rules

Economic and Social Change: The Role of the Platform Economy and Gig Work in China

Migrant Workers and Their Working and Life Status in the Gig Economy

A Countervailing Power - The Interaction Between the Web of Rules and Actors in the Gig Economy

Chapter 7: Collaborative Institutional Experimentation to Address the Exploitation and Marginalisation of Migrant Workers

Sources of Migrant Worker Agency and Vulnerability

Institutional Support for Migrant Workers

Government Support

Trade Union Support

Community Organisation Support

Coalition Building and Co-regulation

Chapter 8: Global Supply Chains and Labour Standards: From a Patchwork of Rules to a Web of Rules?

State Regulation of Labour Standards in GSCs: The Rise of Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation

International and Multi‐State Regulation of Labour Standards in GSCs

UN and EU Systems: The Role of Political and Business Resistance

Trade Agreements and Labour Standards in GSCs: The Missing Link

Private Regulation of Labour Standards in GSCs: Towards Hybrid Institutional Mechanisms?

References.

Conclusion: Towards a New Web of Rules

An Emerging Patchwork of Rules

The Emerging Patchwork Under Covid-19

Remote Working

Frontline Workers and the Pandemic

Public Policy and the Pandemic

A Paradigm Shift?

Institutional Experimentation for Regulating Global Labour

New Forms of Business

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Colfer, Barry Protecting the Future of Work

ISBN:

1-80071-248-0

OCLC:

1369662799