Regulating for Decent Work: New Directions in Labour Market Regulation [Hardcover]

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.PREFACE New Directions in Labour Regulation Research; S.Lee? & D.McCann PART I: THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES The Evidence-based Case for Labour Regulation; S.Deakin Precarious Employment and the Problem of SER-Centrism in Regulating for Decent Work; L.Vosko The Growth of Extended 'Entry Tournaments' and the Decline of Institutionalized Occupational Labour Markets in Britain; D.Marsden PART II: RECENT COUNTRY EXPERIENCES Laws or Luck?: Understanding Rising Formality in Brazil in the 2000s; J.Berg Labour Market Regulations and the Welfare of Indonesian Workers; Y.Islam The Enactment of Three New Labour Laws in China: Unintended Consequences and Emergence of 'New' Actors in Employment Relationships; F.L.Cooke PART III: OLD CHALLENGES, NEW TECHNIQUES Short Time Compensation as an Employment Stabilization Policy; R.LaJeunesse Gender and the Minimum Wage; D.Grimshaw & J.Rubery Decent Work for Domestic Work: an Achievable Goal or Wishful Thinking?; M.Tomei PART IV: ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE REGULATION The Impact of Labour Regulations: Measuring the Effectiveness of Legal Norms; S.Lee & D.McCann Governing Regulatory Discretion: Innovation and Accountability in Two Models of Labour Inspection Work; R.Pires A Diagnostic Methodology for Regulating Decent Work; D.Frey

'Regulating the labour market is a distortion for some, a panacea for others. This book provides the ingredients for those who wish to transcend simple positions. Drawing on empirical, inter-disciplinary and comparative perspectives, this unique collection of essays establishes the moral and economic case for regulation, identifies the circumstances that make regulation effective, and reveals the gap between 'law on lã¹