1st Edition
Regulation and Inequality at Work Isolation and Inequality Beyond the Regulation of Labour
By Vanisha Sukdeo
Copyright 2019
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how the law has limitations to the extent that it can combat repression, isolation, and inequality. The main point the book explores is that isolation and inequality cannot be solved by driving up wages and having better working conditions. The true divide between management and workers is the inability of management to see the workers as people, and not just numbers. "The... Read more
Overview of the book
Chapter One - Historical background
North America
The divergent paths of corporate law and labour law
Brief historical background of the corporation
Winnipeg General Strike
Workers in Developing Countries: Is An Obligation Implied or Imposed?
The Specter of the Specter of Marx
Workers’ Plight
1800s
1900s
2000s
Nike
Arm’s Length exploitation
On the factory floor
Neoliberalism and Ontario laws in the 1990s
Canadian legislation - the Ontario government under Harris
Bill 7 (1995)
Bill 31 (1998)
Bill 139 (2000)
Bibliography for Chapter One
Chapter Two - Current Structure of Labour and Employment Law
Canada
Right to Strike
Framework of Fairness Agreement
Recognition Strikes
The Framework of Fairness Agreement
Criticism of the FFA
Works Councils and the German Model
The German Model
Factory Occupations
U.S.A.
Precarious work
Independent Workers?
Employees, Workers, or something else entirely?
Everyone’s a critic - yet no one is in charge
Let me talk to your manager – wait, you don’t have one?
No manager. Who trained you?
Who is immune?
Wavering Work
Gigging the Economy: What’s Old is New Again
Platfor
Biography
Vanisha H. Sukdeo is a Course Instructor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada.
