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Self-employed Workers Organize
Cynthia Cranford
其他書名
Law, Policy, and Unions
出版
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
, 2005
主題
Business & Economics / Business Law
Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship
Business & Economics / Labor / General
Business & Economics / Labor / Unions
Business & Economics / Freelance & Self-Employment
Law / Labor & Employment
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
ISBN
0773529012
9780773529014
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7a3ZcJlYMKsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Over a million self-employed Canadians work every day but many of them not entitled to the basic labour protections and rights such as minimum wages, maternity and parental leaves and benefits, pay equity, a safe and healthy working environment, and access to collective bargaining. The authors of Self-Employed Workers Organize offer a multi-disciplinary examination of the legal, political, and social realities that both limit collective action by self-employed workers and create huge impediments for unions attempting to organize them. Through case studies of newspaper carriers, rural route mail couriers, personal care workers, and freelance editors - four groups who have led pioneering efforts to organize - the authors provide a window into the ways political and economic conditions interact with class, ethnicity, and gender to shape the meaning and strategies of working men and women and show how these strategies have changed over time. They argue that the experiences of these workers demonstrate a pressing need to expand collective bargaining rights to include them.