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The sole source of protection for many workers in precarious jobs, this book reveals gaps in the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario, Canada, and offers a bold vision for change drawing on innovative initiatives emerging elsewhere.
List of contents
List of Graphs, Tables, and Figures
Authorship
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Mapping the Enforcement Gap: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics
Part One: Charting the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario
2. Responsibilization, Reprisal, and (Non)Remediation: Interrogating the Role of an Individualized Complaints System
3. Administering Complaints: Dilemmas of Accountability
4. Recovering Employees' Wages?
5. The Contradictory Role of Workplace Inspections
6. The Deterrence Gap: Towards an Explanation
7. Strengthening Participatory Approaches to Enforcement
Part Two: Views from Elsewhere: Contextualizing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario
8. Enforcement of Wage Recovery in Britain
9. Out of the Shadows and into the Spotlight: The Sweeping Evolution of Employment Standards Enforcement in Australia
10. Enforcing Employment Standards in Quebec: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward?
11. Strategic Enforcement to Confront Wage Theft in the US: An Insider Account
12. Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs
Notes
Supplementary Information on Quantitative and Qualitative Methods: Ontario Component
Appendix A: Quantitative Data
A.1. Administrative Data
A.2. National Surveys
Appendix B: Qualitative Data
B.1. Worker Interviews
B.2. MOL Interviews
B.3. Community Representative Interviews
Appendix C: Archival Research
Bibliography
Secondary Sources
Primary Sources
Government Documents
Statistics
Archival Sources
Index
Glossary
About the author
Leah F. Vosko is a professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender & Work at York University.
Summary
The sole source of protection for many workers in precarious jobs, this book reveals gaps in the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario, Canada, and offers a bold vision for change drawing on innovative initiatives emerging elsewhere.
