Regulating for Decent Work

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. New Directions in Labour Regulation Research

   1. New Directions in Labour Regulation Research

      • Sangheon Lee, Deirdre McCann

      Pages 1-27

3. Theories and Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The Evidence-Based Case for Labour Regulation

      • Simon Deakin

      Pages 31-57

   3. Precarious Employment and the Problem of SER-Centrism in Regulating for Decent Work

      • Leah F. Vosko

      Pages 58-90

   4. The Growth of Extended ‘Entry Tournaments’ and the Decline of Institutionalized Occupational Labour Markets in Britain

      • David Marsden

      Pages 91-120

4. Recent Country Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Laws or Luck? Understanding Rising Formality in Brazil in the 2000s

      • Janine Berg

      Pages 123-150

   3. Labour Market Regulations and the Welfare of Indonesian Workers

      • Iyanatul Islam

      Pages 151-179

   4. The Enactment of Three New Labour Laws in China: Unintended Consequences and the Emergence of ‘New’ Actors in Employment Relations

      • Fang Lee Cooke

      Pages 180-205

5. Old Challenges, New Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Short Time Compensation as an Employment Stabilization Policy

      • Robert M. LaJeunesse

      Pages 209-225

   3. Gender and the Minimum Wage

      • Jill Rubery, Damian Grimshaw

      Pages 226-254

   4. Decent Work for Domestic Workers: An Achievable Goal or Wishful Thinking?

      • Manuela Tomei

      Pages 255-287

6. Elements of Effective Regulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289

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   2. The Impact of Labour Regulations: Measuring the Effectiveness of Legal Norms in a Developing Country

      • Sangheon Lee, Deirdre McCann

      Pages 291-312

   3. Governing Regulatory Discretion: Innovation and Accountability in Two Models of Labour Inspection Work

      • Roberto Rocha C. Pires

      Pages 313-338

   4. A Diagnostic Methodology for Regulating Decent Work

      • Diane F. Frey

      Pages 339-364

7. Back Matter

   Pages 365-376

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Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years. The inter-disciplinary and international approach invigorates current debates through the identification of new challenges, subjects and perspectives.

• employment
• employment relations
• innovation
• labor market
• labour law
• labour market
• methodology
• regulation

'Regulating the labour market is a distortion for some, a panacea for others. This book provides the ingredients for those who wish to transcend simple positions. Drawing on empirical, inter-disciplinary and comparative perspectives, this unique collection of essays establishes the moral and economic case for regulation, identifies the circumstances that make regulation effective, and reveals the gap between 'law on the books' and 'law in action'. It is a significant resource for scholars and policy-makers who are engaged in thinking about regulation as part of a just market regime.' - Guy Mundlak, Tel-Aviv University

• School of Law, University of Manchester, UK

  Deirdre McCann

SANGHEON LEE Research and Policy Coordinator for Conditions of Work and Employment Programme of the International Labour Office. He specializes in analyzing and monitoring changes in wages and working conditions with a view to developing improved policy responses. Dr. Lee has written extensively on working conditions issues. His recent publications include Globalization and Changes in Employment Conditions in East Asia and the Pacific (co-editor with F. Eyraud, Chandos and ILO, 2008) andWorking Time Around the World (with D. McCann and J. Messenger, 2007, Routlegde and ILO). He is also one of the main authors of the ILO's Global Wage Report 2010/11 (2010) and a Co-ordinator of the Regulating for Decent Work Network. He holds a PhD in economics from Cambridge University.

DEIRDRE MCCANNSenior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research is in the field of labour law and policy and has a particular focus on the regulation of working conditions, precarious work, and the influence of flexibility discourses on labour market regulation. Her publications have focused on the regulation of working time, non-standard work and work/family reconciliation. They include Regulating Flexible Work (Oxford University Press 2008). She was previously a Senior Researcher at the International Labour Office in Geneva and is a co-ordinator of the international research network on Regulating for Decent Work.

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