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Florida, Richard 2002. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 404p.
Get PDFFrom Job Strain to Employment Strain: Health Effects of Precarious Employment
Get PDFThis article examines the relationship between health and the organization of precarious employment. We develop the concept of "employment strain" to capture the characteristics of precarious employment. Preliminary evidence suggests that workers in precarious employment relationships report poorer overall health than working Canadians and higher levels of stress than workers in standard employment relationships. They face high levels of uncertainty regarding access to work, the terms and conditions of that work, and future earnings. They engage in additional effort searching for work and balancing the demands of multiple employers. They have low earnings, few benefits, and reside in low income households
Union Amalgamations as a Basis for Union Renewal in Australia: Insights from Unfinished Business
Get PDFFor many in the labour movement, union mergers are viewed as a viable means of renewing labour organisations. This paper highlights the ongoing Australian experience with union mergers. In the first half of the 1990s, the number of Australian unions was halved as Australian Labour Party initiatives, supported by the labour movement, decreased the number of unions through amalgamations. Analysis of the mergers finds that union mergers have diverse forms, factional allegiances drive many mergers, and that mergers require strong transitional leadership and significant resources. Finally, union amalgamations by themselves do very little to reverse general trends of union decline
Precarious Employment in the Canadian Labour Market: A Statistical Portrait
Get PDF'Precarious employment' is a better concept for understanding labour market insecurity than the dominant concept in Canada, 'non-standard work.' We examine dimensions of precariousness between and within mutually exclusive forms of employment. The growth of 'non-standard work' is fuelled by increases in forms of employment that lack regulatory protection, such as own- account self-employment. Wage work falls along a continuum of precariousness measured as regulatory protection, control and income. Finally, employment in precarious forms is shaped by social location. White men are concentrated in the least precarious forms of employment, while white women, women of colour and youth are concentrated in the more precarious forms
Community Unionism: Organising for Fair Employment in Canada
Get PDFMore Canadian workers are in and out of work or in insecure jobs, prompting the (re)emergence of community unionism. We understand community unionism as a form of mobilization that occupies the centre range along a continuum of community organizing and trade union organizing. After contrasting the currently dominant model industrial unionism to the process-oriented community development mode of organizing, we illustrate the power of drawing on elements of both trade union and community organizing with a case study of Toronto Organizing for Fair Employment (TOFFE). Community unionism, like efforts of union renewal, can help build a stronger labour movement
The Case for Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition for Labour Education in Canada
Get PDFThis article argues the case for recognising the value of labour learning within the formal education system. It is based on an introduction to the report by Gereluk (2001) and discusses the impact of prior learning and recognition (PLAR) on Canadian labour education as well as outlining why labour education deserves recognition. The article reviews aspects of labour education detailed in the report including the content and purposes of union courses and who participates in, and who delivers, union courses
International Work-Time Trends: The Emerging Gap in Hours
Get PDFThis paper examines historical and recent trends in average annual work hours. The shared long-term decline in annual hours appears to be giving way to a growing divergence among OECD nations, with notable differences between several European nations and the United States. Significant differences among nations exist in annual vacation entitlements and are emerging with regard to the workweek. Competing notions of work-time flexibility held by employers and employees are an important new element in recent work-time debates, as is the related trend toward individualised forms of work-time reduction. Some European countries with pioneering work-time regimes are reviewed. The paper concludes by raising the question of how Canada can resist the American long-hours model and catch up with leading-edge practices
