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Remapping Worker Citizenship In Contemporary Occupational Health And Safety Regimes, Eric Tucker
Remapping Worker Citizenship In Contemporary Occupational Health And Safety Regimes, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
The article draws on the rapidly growing field of citizenship studies to map and explore the dynamics of contemporary occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation. Using two key dimensions of OHS regulation (protection and participation), the author constructs four ideal types of worker citizenship (market, public, private industrial, and public industrial citizens). Historically, workers have been written into OHS regulatory regimes in each of these ways. Most recently lawmakers have created a new species of OHS regimes, best described as mandated partial self-regulation. Its distinguishing characteristic is its flexibility, such that worker citizenship can take on any of the forms …
The Malling Of Property Law?: The Toronto Eaton Centre Cases, 1984-1987, And The Right To Exclude, Eric Tucker
The Malling Of Property Law?: The Toronto Eaton Centre Cases, 1984-1987, And The Right To Exclude, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
No abstract provided.
Farm Worker Exceptionalism: Past, Present, And The Post-Fraser Future, Eric Tucker
Farm Worker Exceptionalism: Past, Present, And The Post-Fraser Future, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
No abstract provided.
Worker Health And Safety Struggles: Democratic Possibilities And Constraints, Eric Tucker
Worker Health And Safety Struggles: Democratic Possibilities And Constraints, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
The central point of this article, written in 1995, was that health and safety struggles can be at the vanguard of challenges to a legal social order that tolerates poor labour standards and high levels of worker exploitation. Workers who fear their work is making them sick or subjecting them to high levels of injury and disablement know first-hand that the values of democracy, autonomy, equality and community are denied and not realized by current arrangements. By drawing on that experience and explicitly linking health and safety demands to an alternative vision of social justice, one in which workers enjoy …
Death By Consensus: The Westray Story, Eric Tucker, Harry Glasbeek
Death By Consensus: The Westray Story, Eric Tucker, Harry Glasbeek
Eric M. Tucker
The paper will proceed as follows. It tells the Westray story in two parts, first, the decision to set up the mine and, second, the operation of the mine. These events illuminate the salience of the broader political economic context to an understanding of what happened. Further, the story gives the lie to the assumptions which underpin health and safety regulation. Next, the paper details the implications of the political economy and the prevailing ideology for the enforcement of health and safety regulation. The paper then critically examines a component of, or prop for, the consensus theory which postulates that …
Employee Or Independent Contractor?: Charting The Legal Significance Of The Distinction In Canada, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, Leah Vosko
Employee Or Independent Contractor?: Charting The Legal Significance Of The Distinction In Canada, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, Leah Vosko
Eric M. Tucker
The distinction between employees and independent contractors is crucial in determining the scope of application of labour and employment legislation in Canada, since the self-employed are, for the most part, treated as entrepreneurs who do not require the statutory protections accorded to employees. Yet statistics indicate that most self-employed people resemble employees more than entrepreneurs, in the sense that they are economically dependent on the sale of their labor and are often subject to inferior terms and conditions of work. Using four Canadian jurisdictions as a basis for this comparison, the authors demonstrate that there are wide variations in the …
Changing Boundaries Of Employment: Developing A New Platform For Labour Law, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, Leah Vosko
Changing Boundaries Of Employment: Developing A New Platform For Labour Law, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, Leah Vosko
Eric M. Tucker
In this paper, the authors consider whether the contract of employment should continue to be the central platform for delivering employment- related rights and benefits, such as access to labour standards and collective bargaining legislation. Labour market analysis has traditionally distinguished between employment and self-employment on the basis of a dichotomy between subordination and autonomy. whereas employees subordinate themselves to their employer in exchange for income and job security, the self-employed forego these benefits in order to gain autonomy and control over the means of their own production. This distinction is reflected in, and reinforced by, the boundary drawn in …
The Freedom To Strike In Canada: A Brief Legal History, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker
The Freedom To Strike In Canada: A Brief Legal History, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
This paper looks at the "deep roots" of striking as a social practice in Canada, by providing an analytic framework for approaching the history of the right to strike, and then sketching the contours of that history. Focusing on the three key worker freedoms - to associate, to bargain collectively, and to strike - the authors trace the jural relations between workers, employers and the state through four successive regimes of industrial legality in Canada: master and servant; liberal voluntarism; industrial voluntarism; and industrial pluralism, the latter marked by the adoption of the Wagner Act model. On the basis of …
The Gospel Of Statutory Rules Requiring Liberal Interpretation According To St Peter's, Eric Tucker
The Gospel Of Statutory Rules Requiring Liberal Interpretation According To St Peter's, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
This paper does not evaluate the overall effectiveness of this technique, but rather focuses on one particular way in which the legislature has attempted to control judicial interpretation, the command to interpret statutes liberally and purposively. Typical of such a direction in section 10 of Ontario’s Interpretation Act. This essay proceeds historically. In the first section It examines the common law antecedent to section 10 of the Interpretation Act, the rule in Heydon’s Case. Although this is a judicial not a legislative attempt to define the conventions of interpretation, the disputes over statutory interpretation during that period provide a foundation …