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Closing the Enforcement Gap

Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs

By: Leah Faith Vosko

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Closing the Enforcement Gap

Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs

By: Leah Faith Vosko

The nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains. Closing the Enforcement Gap offers a comprehensive analysis of the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario. Adopting mixed methods, this work includes qualitative research involving in-depth interviews with workers, community advocates, and enforcement officials; extensive archival research excavating decades of ministerial records; and analysis of a previously untapped source of administrative data collected by Ontario’s Ministry of Labour. The authors reveal and trace the roots of a deepening "enforcement gap" that pervades nearly all aspects of the regime, demonstrating that the province’s Employment Standards Act (ESA) fails too many workers who rely on the floor of minimum conditions it was devised to provide. Arguably, there is nothing inevitable about the enforcement gap in Ontario or for that matter elsewhere. Through contributions from leading employment standards enforcement scholars in the US, the UK, and Australia, as well as Quebec, Closing the Enforcement Gap surveys innovative enforcement models that are emerging in a variety of jurisdictions and sets out a bold vision for strengthening employment standards enforcement. Closing the Enforcement Gap Research Group Leah F. Vosko Guliz Akkaymak Rebecca Casey Shelley Condratto John Grundy Alan Hall Alice Hoe Kiran Mirchandani Andrea M. Noack Urvashi Soni-Sinha Mercedes Steedman Mark P. Thomas Eric M. Tucker International/Quebec Contributors Nick Clark Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau Tess Hardy John Howe Guylaine Vallée David Weil

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University of Toronto Press

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1487534051

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Changing Canada

Political Economy as Transformation

By: Wallace Clement,Leah F. Vosko

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Changing Canada

Political Economy as Transformation

By: Wallace Clement,Leah F. Vosko

Changing Canada examines political transformations, welfare state restructuring, international boundaries and contexts, the new urban experience, and creative resistance.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773570993

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9780773570993

Managing the Margins

Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

By: Leah F. Vosko

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Managing the Margins

Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

By: Leah F. Vosko

This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets. Over the last few decades, there has been much discussion of a shift from full-time permanent jobs to higher levels of part-time and temporary employment and self-employment. Despite such attention, regulatory approaches have not adapted accordingly. Instead, in the absence of genuine alternatives, old regulatory models are applied to new labour market realities, leaving the most precarious forms of employment intact. The book places this disjuncture in historical context and focuses on its implications for workers most likely to be at the margins, particularly women and migrants, using illustrations from Australia, the United States, and Canada, as well as member states of the European Union. Managing the Margins provides a rigorous analysis of national and international regulatory approaches, drawing on original and extensive qualitative and quantitative material. It innovates by analyzing the historical and contemporary interplay of employment norms, gender relations, and citizenship boundaries.

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336

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OUP Oxford

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0191614521

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9780191614521

Challenging the Market

The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income

By: Jim Stanford,Leah F. Vosko

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Challenging the Market

The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income

By: Jim Stanford,Leah F. Vosko

A History for the Future will be of interest to all those who reflect on the relationship between memory, giving meaning to the past, writing history, and a society's common aspirations. The original French edition, Passer à l'avenir, won Quebec's Prix Spirale for the best non-fiction book of 2000.

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400

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773572023

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9780773572027

Liberating Temporariness?

Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity

By: Leah F. Vosko,Valerie Preston,Robert Latham

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Liberating Temporariness?

Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity

By: Leah F. Vosko,Valerie Preston,Robert Latham

Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness - in recognition of why pathways to permanence remain so compelling. Through empirical and theoretical analysis, contributors explore various dimensions of temporariness, especially as it relates to the legal status of migrants and refugees, to the spread of precarious employment, and to limitations on social rights. While the focus is on Canada, a number of chapters investigate and contrast developments in Canada with those in Europe as well as Australia and the United States. Together, these essays reveal changing and enduring temporariness at local, regional, national, transnational, and global levels, and in different domains, such as health care, language programs, and security. The question at the heart of this collection is whether temporariness can be liberated from current constraints. While not denying the desirability of permanence for migrants and labourers, Liberating Temporariness? presents alternative possibilities of security and liberation.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773592237

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9780773592230

Temporary Work

The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship

By: Leah F. Vosko

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Temporary Work

The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship

By: Leah F. Vosko

It explores how, and to what extent, temporary work is becoming the norm for a diverse group of workers in the labour market, taking gender as the central lens of analysis.".

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University of Toronto Press

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080208334X

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9780802083340

Closing the Enforcement Gap

Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs

By: Leah F. Vosko,The Closing the Enforcement Gap Research Group

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Closing the Enforcement Gap

Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs

By: Leah F. Vosko,The Closing the Enforcement Gap Research Group

This manuscript explores the enforcement of employment standards, using a mixed-methods approach to examine Ontario as a case study. Drawing on interviews with workers, community advocates, and enforcement officials as well as new archival research, the manuscript demonstrates that enforcement of the province's Employment Standards Act fails too many workers. In the second part of the manuscript, scholars from the US, UK, Australia, and Quebec present "views from elsewhere" to compare and contrast their cases with that of Ontario, drawing out a widespread "enforcement gap" that pervades nearly all aspects of employment standards. In the end, the manuscript surveys innovative enforcement models that are emerging in a number of jurisdictions and sets out a new vision for the enforcement of employment standards."--

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1487524315

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Closing the Enforcement Gap

Closing the Enforcement Gap

Changing Canada

Changing Canada

Managing the Margins

Managing the Margins

Challenging the Market

Challenging the Market

Liberating Temporariness?

Liberating Temporariness?

Temporary Work

Temporary Work

Closing the Enforcement Gap

Closing the Enforcement Gap

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