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Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, And Unions, Cynthia Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, Leah Vosko
Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, And Unions, Cynthia Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, Leah Vosko
Eric M. Tucker
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 …
Labour Before The Law: The Regulation Of Workers' Collective Action In Canada, 1900-1948, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker
Labour Before The Law: The Regulation Of Workers' Collective Action In Canada, 1900-1948, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major judicial decisions that transformed the labour relations regime of liberal voluntarism, which prevailed in the later part of the nineteenth century, into industrial voluntarism, whose centrepiece was Mackenzie King's Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907. This period was marked by coercion and compromise, as workers organized and fought to extend their rights against the profit oriented owners …