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Cynthia J. Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, and Leah F. Vosko, Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2005)
THIS BOOK analyses the efforts of self-employed workers in four occupations--newspaper carriers, rural mail couriers, personal care workers, and freelance editors--to organize for collective representation and bargain to !reprove their pay and working conditions. The four case studies together with well-presented introductory and concluding chapters provide considerable insights into the limitations of labour law and the dominant model of industrial unionism for self-employed workers. Through this analysis, the authors also present important challenges to the routine classification of workers into dichotomous categories of the employed versus the self-employed. The book highlights the diversity of self-employed work experiences, and the degree to which many self-employed workers face a dependency and insecurity far more akin to that of employees than to the ideals of entrepreneurship with which they are more typically associated.
The introductory chapter provides an overview of the employment norm that is presumed by much of Canadian labour law since World War II. That norm... |
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