"This manuscript explores the enforcement of employment standards, using a mixed-methods approach to examine Ontario as a case study. Drawing on interviews with workers, community advocates, and enforcement officials as well as new archival research, the manuscript demonstrates that enforcement...

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

Implementation of workplace policies-whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs-raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g., unions) or indirectly (e.g., insurance...

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

Contents -- Part I: Vignettes from the Modern Workplace -- 1. The Fissured Workplace and Its Consequences -- 2. Employment in a Pre-fissured World -- 3. Why Fissure? -- 4. Wage Determination in a Fissured Workplace -- Part II. The Forms and Consequences of the Fissured Workplace -- 5. The...