Creative Labour Regulation : Indeterminacy and protection in an uncertain world.

Creative Labour Regulation : Indeterminacy and protection in an uncertain world.

The book identifies three central challenges to contemporary labour regulation: intensifying labour market fragmentation; complex interactions between labour market institutions; and obstacles to effective enforcement. International in scope, the volume includes chapters on both advanced economies (...

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Main Author: McCann, Deirdre
Other Authors: Lee, Sangheon, Belser, Patrick, Fenwick, Colin, Howe, John, Luebker, Malte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva : International Labour Office, 2014.
Series:Advances in labour studies.
Subjects:
Labor laws and legislation.
Labor.
Work.
labor.
Work
Labor
Labor laws and legislation
Labour economics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Regulatory Indeterminacy and Protection in Contemporary Labour Markets: Innovation in Research and Policy; Introduction; Regulating the fragmented labour market: theory, doctrine and enforcement; Institutional interactions: the case of the minimum wage; Figure 1.1 The dynamic relationship between minimum wages and collective bargaining; Effective implementation: new theoretical and empirical approaches to enforcement indeterminacy; Conclusions; Notes.
  • Effects of fast food franchising on workplace labour standardsRebalancing the fissured workplace; Figure 2.2 Effects of franchising on employer back wages and compliance, US fast food industry, top 20 brands; Rethinking responsibility in a fissured workplace; Rethinking enforcement; Conclusions; Notes; References; 3 Regulating for Decent Work and the Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations; Introduction; 'Regulating for decent work' and the 'legal construction of personal work relations': definitions and interactions.
  • 'Legal construction of personal work relations': doctrinal and regulatory perspectivesThe broad domain of personal work relations; The ideas of the personal work nexus and the personal work profile; The idea of differential integration of layers of regulation; Conclusions: 'regulating for decent work' and the 'legal construction of personal work relations'
  • normative purposes and empirical methodology; Normative purposes; Empirical methodologies; Notes; References; PART III: INSTITUTIONAL INTERACTIONS: THE CASE OF MINIMUM WAGE REGULATION.
  • 4 Employment, Inequality and Minimum Wages in ArgentinaIntroduction; The minimum wage controversy; The international debates; Minimum wages in Latin America; The minimum wage in Argentina: history and recent evolution; Evaluating minimum wages and their impacts; Data; Table 4.1 Modifications of the minimum wage; Who is affected by minimum wages?; Minimum wages versus average wages: too high or too low?; Table 4.2 Distribution of employees according to their salary levels in relation to the legal minimum (%); Minimum wages and informal workers; Table 4.3 Evolution of the monthly minimum wage.

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