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Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions

Resource type
Authors/contributors
Title
Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions
Abstract
Over a million self-employed Canadians work every day but many of them are not entitled to the basic labour protections and rights such as minimum wages, maternity and parental leaves and benefits, pay equity, a safe and healthy working environment, and access to collective bargaining. The authors of "Self-Employed Workers Organize" offer a multi-disciplinary examination of the legal, political, and social realities that both limit collective action by self-employed workers and create huge impediments for unions attempting to organize them. 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. --Publisher's description
Place
Montreal
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date
2005
# of Pages
xii, 265 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-7735-2901-4
Short Title
Self-Employed Workers Organize
Library Catalog
laurentian.concat.ca
Call Number
HD8037.C2 S447 2005
Extra
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/selfemployedwork0000unse
Notes

Contents: Star Wars: Newspaper Distribution Workers and the Possibilities and Limits of Collective Bargaining / Eric Tucker -- Deemed to be Entrepreneurs: Rural Route Mail Couriers and Canada Post / Judy Fudge -- From Precarious Workers to Unionized Employees and Back Again?: The Challenges of Organizing Personal-Care Workers in Ontario / Cynthia J. Cranford -- The Precarious Status of the Artist: Freelance Editors' Struggle for Collective Bargaining Rights / Leah F. Vosko -- Conclusion: What Have We Learned?

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

Citation
Cranford, C., Fudge, J., Tucker, E., & Vosko, L. F. (2005). Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions. McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/self-employed-workers-organize-products-9780773528727.php