UID:
almahu_9949384033802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780429836626
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0429836627
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9780429451416
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0429451415
Series Statement:
Routledge research in corporate law
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Overview of the book -- 1 Historical Background -- North America -- The Divergent Paths of Corporate Law and Labour Law -- Brief Historical Background of the Corporation -- Winnipeg General Strike -- Labour Strikes -- Background to the General Strike -- Socialist Sympathy as a Cause of the Strike -- Growing Communist and Socialist Sympathy -- Communist and Socialist Literature -- The Role of the SPC -- The One Big Union -- Another Cause-Soldiers Without Jobs -- Sedition -- Trial of Russell -- Trial of the Other Strike Leaders -- Trial of Dixon -- Release From Prison -- Andrews and the Committee of 1000 -- Criminalization of Workers Struggles -- The Role of the Police in the Strike -- Sympathy Strikes -- Aftermath, CCF -- Workers in Developing Countries: Is an Obligation Implied or Imposed? -- The Specter of the Specter of Marx -- Workers' Plight -- 1800s -- 1900s -- 2000s -- Nike -- Arm's Length Exploitation -- On the Factory Floor -- Neoliberalism and Ontario Laws in the 1990s -- Canadian Legislation-The Ontario Government Under Harris -- Bill 7 (1995) -- Bill 31 (1998) -- Bill 139 (2000) -- Bibliography for Chapter 1 -- 2 Current Structure of Labour and Employment Law -- Canada -- Right to Strike -- Background -- Where does the Right to Strike Get its Legality? -- Section 2(d) of the Charter -- The Labour Trilogy -- B.C. Health Services -- Natural Justice -- The Right to Strike-How Important is It? -- Recognition Strikes -- Collective Bargaining and the Charter -- Framework of Fairness Agreement -- The Framework of Fairness Agreement -- Criticism of the FFA -- Sam Gindin's Critique of the FFA -- Other Critics -- Works Councils and the German Model -- The German Model -- Factory Occupations -- The United States -- Precarious Work -- Independent Workers?.
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Employees, Workers, or Something Else Entirely? -- Everyone's a Critic-Yet No One Is in Charge -- Let Me Talk to Your Manager-Wait, You Don't Have One? -- No Manager? Who Trained You? -- Who Is Immune? -- Wavering Work -- Gigging the Economy: What's Old Is New Again -- Platform Capitalism and the New Economy -- Labour Platforms -- Uber and Seattle -- Uber Loses Its License in London -- Capital Platforms -- Workplaces and Work Spaces -- Open Offices -- No Workplace and Just Space -- Technology and the Ever-Lengthening Chain -- Bibliography for Chapter 2 -- 3 How Can the Law Be Changed -- Legislative Framework -- Fiduciary Duty to Workers -- Fiduciary Duties -- How Traditional Corporate Governance Has Failed Workers -- Corporations as Citizens -- 'Good Corporate Citizen' versus 'Good Samaritan Corporation' -- Good Samaritan Corporation -- Layering Governance -- Employer Free Speech -- Increasing Labour Standards on a Worldwide Level -- International Labor Organization -- Transportable Law/Portable Law -- Collective Agreement as Certification Scheme -- Consumer Autonomy -- Unifor and Community Chapters -- Worker Voice -- Governance Models -- Codes of Conduct as Tools to Increase Workers' Rights -- Codes of Conduct -- Codes Versus Certifications -- Codes as Corporate Reformation -- Governance -- Ethics Codes -- The Gig Economy or the Rig Economy? -- Isolation and Inequality -- Bibliography for Chapter 3 -- 4 Transnational Labour Regulation -- Marxism -- Marxism and the Law -- Marx's Theory of Alienation -- Beyond Marx -- Distancing -- Compassion Fatigue -- Enlightened Self-Interest -- Dignity and Respect -- Kindness and Empathy -- Pro-Friendly -- Collectivity -- My Model Code of Conduct -- Model Code of Conduct -- 1. Forced Labour -- 2. Child Labour -- 3. Wages and Benefits -- 4. Overtime -- 5. Working Hours -- 6. Working Conditions.
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7. Health and Safety -- 8. Harassment -- 9. Discrimination -- 10. Environment -- 11. Freedom of Association -- 12. Monitoring -- 13. Access to Facilities -- Monitoring Agencies -- Worker Rights Consortium -- Fair Labor Association -- Bibliography for Chapter 4 -- 5 Conclusion -- Codes of Conduct -- Disruptor and Disruption -- Reserve Army of Labour -- Emotional Labour -- Organizational Justice -- There Are Limits to the Law -- Expansion of Fiduciary Duties -- Not OK Computer: Automization and the Worker -- Luddism -- Not Just Numbers, They Are Men (and Women) -- Bibliography for Chapter 5 -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Regulation and inequality at work Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. ISBN 9781138323421 (hbk)
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429451416
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