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Book
Authors/contributors
Title
Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income
Abstract
Challenging the Market offers insights from eighteen scholars and activists from around the world. Calling on a tremendous range of experience in different countries, different industries, and with different groups of workers, contributors argue that labour market policy should shift to a more interventionist and compassionate footing. For two decades economic and social policy in most of the world has been guided by the notion that economies function best when they are fully exposed to competitive market forces. In labour market policy, this approach is reflected in the widespread emphasis on "flexibility" - a euphemism for the retrenchment of income support and social security, the relaxation of labour market regulations, and the enhanced power of private actors to determine the terms of the employment relationship. These strategies have had marked effects on labour market outcomes, leading to greater vulnerability and polarization - and not always in ways that enhance worker-centred flexibility. The authors offer a more balanced analysis of the functioning and effects of labour market regulation and deregulation. By questioning the underpinnings of the "flexibility" paradigm, and revealing its often damaging impacts (on different countries, sectors, and constituencies), they challenge the conclusion that unregulated market forces produce optimal labour market outcomes. The authors conclude with several suggestions for how labour policy could be reformulated to promote both efficiency and equity. --Publisher's description
Place
Montreal
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date
2004
# of Pages
ix, 387 pages: illustrations
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-7735-2726-3
Short Title
Challenging the Market
URL
https://www.mqup.ca/challenging-the-market-products-9780773527263.php
Accessed
12/27/23, 11:42 PM
Library Catalog
Open WorldCat
Extra
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/challengingmarke0000unse_l6i3
Notes

Contents: Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income / Jim Stanford and Leah F Vosko. Part 1: The Changing Economics of Labour Market Regulation. The NAIRU, Labour Market "Flexibility," and Full Employment / Malcolm Sawyer -- The Causes of High Unemployment: Labour Market Sclerosis versus Macroeconomic Policy / Thomas I. Palley.  Institutions and Policies for Labour Market Success in Four Small European Countries / Peter Auer. Part 2: Developments in Labour Market Structure. Challenging Segmentation in South Africa's Labour Market: "Regulated Flexibility" or Flexible Regulation? / Marlea Clarke -- The Russian Reforms and Their Impact on Labour: A Transition to What? / Manfred Bienefeld, Tatyana Chetvernina, and Liana Lakunina -- Deregulating Industrial Relations in the Apparel Sector: The Decree System in Quebec Michel Grant -- European Labour Market Regulation: The Case of European Works Councils Michael / John Whittall. Part 3: The Diffential Effects of Labour Market Deregulation. Racializing the Division of Labour: Neoliberal Restructuring and the Economic Segregation of Canada's Racialized Groups / Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- Towards Perfect Flexibility: Youth as an Industrial Reserve Army for the New Economy / Stephen McBride -- The Crisis in Rural Labour Markets: Failures and Challenges for Regulation / Martha MacDonald -- Technology, Gender, and Regulation: Call Centres in New Brunswick / Tom Good and Joan McFarland -- Neoliberalism, Social Democracy, and the Struggle to Improve Labour Standards for Part-time Workers in Saskatchewan / Dave Broad, Della MacNeil, and Sandra Salhani Gamble. Part 4: Alternative Visions. Labour Market Deregulation and the U.S. Living-Wage Movement / Stephanie Luce / Gendered Resistance and Organizing Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles / CynthiaJ Cranford  -- Labour's Current Organizational Struggles in Argentina: Towards a New Beginning? / Viviana Patroni -- Critical Times for French Employment Regulation: The 35-Hour Week and the Challenge to Social Partnership / Steve Jefferys -- How Credible Are International Corporate Labour Codes? Monitoring Global Production Chains / Don Wells.

Citation
Stanford, J., & Vosko, L. F. (Eds.). (2004). Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income. McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/challenging-the-market-products-9780773527263.php
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