Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Precarious Employment: Towards an Improved Understanding of Labour Market Insecurity 3
5. Mapping Precarious Employment in Canada: New Statistical Insights
6. Conceptualizing Precarious Employment: Mapping Wage Work across Social Location and Occupational Context 43
7. Precarious by Choice? Gender and Self-employment 67
8. Precarious Employment and People with Disabilities 90
9. Precarious Work, Privatization, and the Health-Care Industry: The Case of Ancillary Workers 115
10. Precarious Health at Work and Precarious Work in an Unhealthy Public Sector
11. The Hidden Costs of Precarious Employment: Health and the Employment Relationship 141
12. Essential but Precarious: Changing Employment Relationships and Resistance in the Ontario Public Service 163
13. Privatizing Public Employment Assistance and Precarious Employment in Toronto 182
14. Regulating Precarious Employment: Institutions, Law, and Policy
15. Precarious Employment and the Law’s Flaws: Identifying Regulatory Failure and Securing Effective Protection for Workers 203
16. Mitigating Precarious Employment in Quebec: The Role of Minimum Employment Standards Legislation 221
17. Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in Quebec 241
18. Will the Vicious Circle of Precariousness Be Unbroken? The Exclusion of Ontario Farm Workers from the Occupational Health and Safety Act 256
19. Regulating Precarious Labour Markets: What Can We Learn from New European Models? 277
20. Unions, Unionisms, and Precarious Employment
21. The Union Dimension: Mitigating Precarious Employment? 301
22. Racism/Anti-Racism, Precarious Employment, and Unions 318
23. Union Renewal and Precarious Employment: A Case Study of Hotel Workers 335
24. Thinking through Community Unionism 353
25. What Is to Be Done? Harnessing Knowledge to Mitigate Precarious Employment 379
26. Notes 389
27. Bibliography 409
28. Glossary 455
29. Contributors 461
30. Index 467