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. 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xvi New Directions in Labour Regulation Research....Pages 1-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 The Evidence-Based Case for Labour Regulation....Pages 31-57 Precarious Employment and the Problem of SER-Centrism in Regulating for Decent Work....Pages 58-90 The Growth of Extended ‘Entry Tournaments’ and the Decline of Institutionalized Occupational Labour Markets in Britain....Pages 91-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Laws or Luck? Understanding Rising Formality in Brazil in the 2000s....Pages 123-150 Labour Market Regulations and the Welfare of Indonesian Workers....Pages 151-179 The Enactment of Three New Labour Laws in China: Unintended Consequences and the Emergence of ‘New’ Actors in Employment Relations....Pages 180-205 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 Short Time Compensation as an Employment Stabilization Policy....Pages 209-225 Gender and the Minimum Wage....Pages 226-254 Decent Work for Domestic Workers: An Achievable Goal or Wishful Thinking?....Pages 255-287 Front Matter....Pages 289-289 The Impact of Labour Regulations: Measuring the Effectiveness of Legal Norms in a Developing Country....Pages 291-312 Governing Regulatory Discretion: Innovation and Accountability in Two Models of Labour Inspection Work....Pages 313-338 A Diagnostic Methodology for Regulating Decent Work....Pages 339-364 Back Matter....Pages 365-376 "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