Download or read book Policy Options to Improve Standards for Women Garment Workers in Canada and Internationally written by Lynda Yanz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research report looks at a variety of possible responses to the deterioration of standards and labour practices in the garment industry caused by globalization, trade liberalization, restructuring and deregulation.
Download or read book Regulating Flexibility written by Mark P. Thomas and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a contemporary labour market that includes growing levels of precarious employment, the regulation of minimum employment standards is intricately connected to conditions of economic security. With a focus on the role of neoliberal labour market policies in promoting "flexible" employment standards legislation - particularly in the areas of minimum wages and working time - Mark Thomas argues that shifts toward "flexible" legislation have played a central role in producing patterns of labour market inequality. Using an analytic framework that situates employment standards within the context of the broader social relations that shape processes of labour market regulation, Thomas constructs a case study of employment standards legislation in Ontario from 1884 to 2004. Drawing from political economy scholarship, and using a qualitative research methodology, he analyses class, race, and gender dimensions of legislative developments, highlighting the ways in which shifts towards "flexible" employment standards have exacerbated longstanding racialized and gendered inequities. Regulating Flexibility argues that in order to counter current trends towards increased insecurity, employment standards should not be treated as a secondary form of labour protection but as a cornerstone in a progressive project of labour market re-regulation.
Download or read book Neoliberalism and Everyday Life written by Susan Braedley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-03-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the ways in which neoliberal policies - such as the deregulation of economies and the transfer of governmental responsibilities to the private sector - have been implemented on a global scale, the contributors show how neoliberalism has seeped into our social and political fabric and affected our daily lives. Drawing attention to the most visible elements of neoliberalism in business, government, and personal life, reveal the ways in which policies designed to ensure market expansion also inevitably expand social inequalities of gender, race, class, and ability. Using a variety of methods, contributors discuss a range of topics, including globalization, privatization, health care, and the welfare state. An intelligent and informative collection that explains and challenges neoliberal policies, Neoliberalism and Everyday Life is an important assessment of a political system that makes profit easier and people's lives more difficult.
Download or read book The Future of Lifelong Learning and Work written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern with learning throughout life has become pervasive in market-driven societies. Will most workers need to become more continuous learners in a new knowledge-based economy or will much of their learning be ignored or devalued in relation to their work? These papers critically assess dominant views of learning and work.
Download or read book The Global Social Policy Reader written by Nicola Yeates and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and accessible guide to the key themes, issues and debates in global social policy. This Reader collects together key papers by international leaders in the field that cover the emergence of global social policy as a dynamic and expanding field, the transformation of welfare from a predominantly national to a global field of action, and the impact of globalisation on key welfare discourses and governance mechanisms. The global social policy reader will have broad appeal among undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of social science subjects, including social and public policy, social care and health studies, sociology, politics, economics, international relations and development studies.
Download or read book Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights written by Rhys Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a more general shift away from state regulation of transnational corporations towards corporate self-regulation in the areas of labour and environmental standards and human rights. This work provides a critical perspective on the growth and significance of corporate codes with a particular focus on working conditions and labour rights. It brings together work by academics, practitioners and activists.
Download or read book Monitoring Sweatshops written by Jill Esbenshade and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale overview of sweatshop monitoring.
Download or read book Privatization Law and the Challenge to Feminism written by Brenda Cossman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining eight case studies on the role of law in various arenas, this collection of essays addresses the reconfiguration of the relations between the state, the market, and the family caused by privatization.
Download or read book Work in Tumultuous Times written by Vivian Shalla and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive analysis of the transformation of paid and unpaid work in contemporary Canada.
Download or read book Daily Struggles written by Siu-ming Kwok and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daily Struggles offers a unique, critical perspective on poverty by highlighting gender and race analyses simultaneously. Unlike previously published Canadian books in this field, this book connects human rights, political economy perspectives, and citizenship issues to other areas of social exclusion." "This new book is ideally suited for a wide variety of sociology, social work, and political science courses in the areas of social inequality and stratification, poverty, social policy and welfare, gender, race and ethnicity, and anti-racism."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Wealth by Stealth written by H. J. Glasbeek and published by Between The Lines. This book was released on 2002 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that corporations are able to behave irresponsibly, criminally, and undemocratically? "Wealth by Stealth" is a scathing introduction to the operations of the modern corporation, written by a corporate lawyer. Many writers point to the growth of undemocratic corporate power. Glasbeek takes these observations further and outlines clearly how corporations become so powerful. He also shows how they are able to act without regard to the behaviour and laws governing citizens and other groups. Glasbeek is known by generations of students for his brilliant, funny lectures at Osgoode Hall Law School. With "Wealth by Stealth" his informative critique of corporate behaviour becomes available and accessible to all. How is it "The corporation makes them do it"?
Download or read book Labour and Globalisation written by Ronaldo Munck and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often assumed that social movements, such as that of labour, will simply be overwhelmed by the changes brought about by globalisation. This volume points to this conclusion as at best premature and possibly also misguided.
Download or read book Economics of Globalisation written by Partha Gangopadhyay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalisation has evolved to become the dominant economic, cultural, environmental and political phenomenon of our time. In economic terms, debates now extend beyond concepts of 'winners and losers', to key questions of how to deal with the problems unleashed by globalisation while preserving its benefits. However, if the benefits of globalisation are fairly shared and the costs properly dealt with, a deeper economic understanding of how globalisation is impacting our economic world is needed. This important book addresses this task, featuring contributions from many of the world's leading economists. Seven key aspects of globalisation are considered: trans-border trade, trans-border movement of people and capital, the emergence of a new international order, the homogenization of economic cultures, technology and institutions, labour market consequences, corporate governance issues, and prospects for a global society. These carefully chosen themes illuminate the complex path that globalisation is following by showing it to be a process consisting of various transitions and subplots, the totality of which is closely examined in this comprehensive and authoritative work. Economics of Globalisation is essential reading for academics, researchers, policy-makers and business professionals.
Download or read book International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights written by Canada. Canadian Heritage and published by Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Heritage. This book was released on 2004 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes measures and initiatives taken by the Government of Canada and the governments of the provinces and territories with respect to articles 6 to 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Those articles cover such matters as the right to self-determination, the right to work, working conditions, trade union rights, social security, protection of the family, the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to physical and mental health, educational rights, and the right to take part in cultural life and to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and the protection of authors' interests. Measures and initiatives are arranged by article number, first for Canada and then for each province or territory, with reference to relevant legislation and to court cases, as applicable.
Download or read book Rigged Rules and Double Standards written by Kevin Watkins and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical and detailed analysis of inequalities of world trade systems.
Download or read book Inequality in Canada written by Valerie Sarah-Elizabeth Zawilski and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of published Canadian articles about inequality in Canada looks at how inequality is shaped by the intersections of gender, race and class.
Download or read book Ab using Power written by Dorothy E. Chunn and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book about crime, law, power, and social issues in Canada includes contributions from academics, legal practitioners, journalists, and social activists who have been studying and struggling for years against the abuse of power in myriad realms of Canadian life and represents the first systematic effort in Canada to integrate a variety of topics related to power into a single collection aimed at identifying and exploring common themes, issues, problems, and remedies.
