Regulating for Decent Work: New Directions in Labour Market Regulation (Advances in Labour Studies)

Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years. The inter-disciplinary and international approach invigorates current debates through the identification of new challenges, subjects and perspectives. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 List of Tables......Page 10 Notes on Contributors......Page 12 Preface......Page 16 1 New Directions in Labour Regulation Research......Page 18 Part I: Theories and Perspectives......Page 46 2 The Evidence-Based Case for Labour Regulation......Page 48 3 Precarious Employment and the Problem of SER-Centrism in Regulating for Decent Work......Page 75 4 The Growth of Extended ‘Entry Tournaments’ and the Decline of Institutionalized Occupational Labour Markets in Britain......Page 108 Part II: Recent Country Experiences......Page 138 5 Laws or Luck? Understanding Rising Formality in Brazil in the 2000s......Page 140 6 Labour Market Regulations and the Welfare of Indonesian Workers......Page 168 7 The Enactment of Three New Labour Laws in China: Unintended Consequences and the Emergence of ‘New’ Actors in Employment Relations......Page 197 Part III: Old Challenges, New Techniques......Page 224 8 Short Time Compensation as an Employment Stabilization Policy......Page 226 9 Gender and the Minimum Wage......Page 243 10 Decent Work for Domestic Workers: An Achievable Goal or Wishful Thinking?......Page 272 Part IV: Elements of Effective Regulation......Page 306 11 The Impact of Labour Regulations: Measuring the Effectiveness of Legal Norms in a Developing Country......Page 308 12 Governing Regulatory Discretion: Innovation and Accountability in Two Models of Labour Inspection Work......Page 330 13 A Diagnostic Methodology for Regulating Decent Work......Page 356 Index......Page 382 Regulating for Decent Work is an international and inter-disciplinary response to the neo-liberal ideologies that have shaped labour market regulation in recent decades. It draws on contributions by leading experts across a range of disciplines, including economics, law, political science and industrial relations. International in scope, it includes chapters on both advanced economies (US, Canada, Europe) and the developing world (China, Brazil, Indonesia, Tanzania). The volume identifies central themes in the contemporary regulation of labour, including the regulation of precarious work, the emergence of new types of labour market and the role of empirical research in assessing and supporting labour market interventions. Each theme is explored through key contributions by leading experts. Chapters cover issues that include labour market uncertainty, the effectiveness of legal norms, and methodologies for evaluating the intersection of various levels of regulation. The book advances the academic and policy debates on post-crisis labour regulation by identifying new challenges, subjects and theoretical perspectives. In contrast to the dominant deregulatory approaches, it calls for labour market regulation to be reinvigorated. This book will be required reading for postgraduates and academic researchers in law, economics, industrial relations and development studies, as well as policy makers at both international and domestic levels "Regulating for Decent Work is an international and interdisciplinary response to the neoliberal ideologies that have shaped labour market regulation in recent decades. It draws on contributions by leading experts across a range of disciplines, including economics, law, political science and industrial relations. International in scope, it includes chapters on both advanced economies (Canada, Europe, United States) and the developing world (Brazil, China, Indonesia, Tanzania). The volume identifies central themes in the contemporary regulation of labour, including the role of empirical research in assessing and supporting labour market interventions, the regulation of precarious work and the emergence of new types of labour markets. Each theme is explored through key contributions by leading experts. Chapters cover issues that include labour market uncertainty, the effectiveness of legal norms and methodologies for evaluating the intersection of various levels of regulation. The book advances the academic and policy debates on post-crisis labour regulation by identifying new challenges, subjects and theoretical perspectives. In contrast to the dominant deregulatory approaches, it calls for labour market regulation to be reinvigorated."--Publisher's website