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Harriet Presser. (2003) . Working in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for American Families New York: Russell Sage Foundation 2003. 267 pages.
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Inside Unions at the Bargaining Table: Keynote Address of the Advancing the Equity Agenda Conference
Get PDFDerek Fudge and John Brewin. (2005). Collective Bargaining in Canada: Human Right or Canadian Illusion? Ottawa, Canada. Published by NUPGE and UFCW.
Get PDFUnion Strategies to Re-Regulate Working Time
Get PDFThe organization of working time is a central concern in today's labour market, as it is connected to experiences of work-life conflict, employment insecurity, and broader patterns of gender inequality. This article examines union responses to working time changes using a case study of four large unions, as well as a larger survey of working time provisions in major collective agreements. The article contends that working time re-regulation strategies include not only efforts to reduce hours of work, but also a range of strategies to promote 'employee-oriented time flexibility.' These working time strategies provide some means to address growing forms of work-life conflict and working time inequalities; however, these strategies are constrained by a number of factors, including employer resistance and the need for broader-based representational and collective bargaining structures
Building Global Labour Networks: The Case of the Global Labour University
Get PDFThe article discusses the experience of the Global Labour University project. Summarizing major challenges labour is facing in adapting to the structural changes of globalisation, the paper puts the idea of a Global Labour University in the broader context of labour's needs to respond to a dominantly pro-business, pro-market globalisation discourse. The second part of the article introduces and critically discusses the Global Labour University project as an initiative to contribute to the need for global research, teaching and networking for a fairer globalisation
