Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions - Softcover

Cranford, Cynthia; Fudge, Judy; Tucker, Eric

9780773529014: Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773529012 ISBN 13: 9780773529014

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

Through case studies of newspaper carriers, rural route mail couriers, personal care workers, and freelance editors - four groups who have led pioneering efforts to organize - the authors provide a window into the ways political and economic conditions interact with class, ethnicity, and gender to shape the meaning and strategies of working men and women and show how these strategies have changed over time. They argue that the experiences of these workers demonstrate a pressing need to expand collective bargaining rights to include them.

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About the Author:

Cynthia J. Cranford is assistant professor of sociology, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, economic restructuring, and labour organizing.
Judy Fudge, professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, is co-au

Review:

"This book covers a field crying out for research and publication. As there is very little written on this subject, this book constitutes a significant and very valuable addition to the field, not only in Canada but across the industrialized world." Larry Haiven, Department of Management, Saint Mary's University

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