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Understanding "precarious employment" and its links to labour market institutions, industrial and occupational contexts, gender, 'race,' and (dis)ability. Contents Preface 1 Precarious Employment: Towards an Improved Understanding of Labour Market Insecurity PART ONE: MAPPING PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT IN CANADA: NEW STATISTICAL INSIGHTS 2 Conceptualizing Precarious Employment: Mapping Wage Work across Social Location and Occupational Context 3 Precarious by Choice? Gender and Self-employment 4 Precarious Employment and People with Disabilities 5 Precarious Work, Privatization, and the Health-Care Industry: The Case of Ancillary Workers PART TWO: PRECARIOUS HEALTH AT WORK AND PRECARIOUS WORK IN AN UNHEALTHY PUBLIC SECTOR 6 The Hidden Costs of Precarious Employment: Health and the Employment Relationship 7 Essential but Precarious: Changing Employment Relationships and Resistance in the Ontario Public Service 8 Privatizing Public Employment Assistance and Precarious Employment in Toronto PART THREE: REGULATING PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT: INSTITUTIONS, LAW, AND POLICY 9 Precarious Employment and the Law’s Flaws: Identifying Regulatory Failure and Securing Effective Protection for Workers 10 Mitigating Precarious Employment in Quebec: The Role of Minimum Employment Standards Legislation 11 Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in Quebec 12 Will the Vicious Circle of Precariousness Be Unbroken? The Exclusion of Ontario Farm Workers from the Occupational Health and Safety Act 13 Regulating Precarious Labour Markets: What Can We Learn from New European Models? PART FOUR: UNIONS, UNIONISMS, AND PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT 14 The Union Dimension: Mitigating Precarious Employment? 15 Racism/Anti-Racism, Precarious Employment, and Unions 16 Union Renewal and Precarious Employment: A Case Study of Hotel Workers 17 Thinking through Community Unionism Conclusion What Is to Be Done? Harnessing Knowledge to Mitigate Precarious Employment Notes Bibliography Glossary Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z This interdisciplinary volume offers a multifaceted picture of precarious employment and the ways in which its principal features are reinforced or challenged by laws, policies, and labour market institutions, including trade unions and community organizations. Contributors develop more fully the concept of precarious employment and critique outmoded notions of standard and nonstandard employment. The product of a five-year Community-University Research Alliance, the volume aims to foster new social, statistical, legal, political, and economic understandings of precarious employment and to advance strategies for improving the quality and conditions of work and health. Contributors include John Anderson (Canadian Council on Social Development), Pat Armstrong (York University), James Beaton (York University), Stéphanie Bernstein (University of Québec at Montréal), Jan Borowy (Ontario Public Sector Employees' Union), Cynthia Cranford (University of Toronto), Tania Das Gupta (York University), Alice de Wolff (Independent Researcher, Toronto), Andrew Jackson (Canadian Labour Congress), Andrew King (United Steel Workers of America), Kate Laxer (York University), Wayne Lewchuk (McMaster University), Katherine Lippel (University of Québec at Montréal), Chris Schenk (Ontario Federation of Labour), Michael Polanyi (Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives), Emile Tompa (McMaster University and University of Toronto), Heather Scott (University of Toronto and Institute for Work and Health [IWH]), Scott Trevithick (University of Toronto and IWH), Sudipa Bhattacharyya (IWH), Eric Tucker (York University), and Nancy Zukewich (Statistics Canada).