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Closing the Enforcement Gap : Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs - Leah Faith Vosko

Closing the Enforcement Gap

Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs

By: Leah Faith Vosko

Hardcover | 3 January 2020

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The nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains. Closing the Enforcement Gap offers a comprehensive analysis of the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario.

Adopting mixed methods, this work includes qualitative research involving in-depth interviews with workers, community advocates, and enforcement officials; extensive archival research excavating decades of ministerial records; and analysis of a previously untapped source of administrative data collected by Ontario's Ministry of Labour. The authors reveal and trace the roots of a deepening "enforcement gap" that pervades nearly all aspects of the regime, demonstrating that the province's Employment Standards Act (ESA) fails too many workers who rely on the floor of minimum conditions it was devised to provide. Arguably, there is nothing inevitable about the enforcement gap in Ontario or for that matter elsewhere. Through contributions from leading employment standards enforcement scholars in the US, the UK, and Australia, as well as Quebec, Closing the Enforcement Gap surveys innovative enforcement models that are emerging in a variety of jurisdictions and sets out a bold vision for strengthening employment standards enforcement.
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A must-read for everyone who wants to understand why violations of basic workplace laws are everyday occurrences and how vulnerable employees can be better protected.

- Gerhard Bosch, Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Fakultat fur Gesellschaftswissenschaften

For those who want to understand what happens in the implementation phase, after labour laws are passed, and the limitations of our current systems of labour standards enforcement, this is an incredibly important book by one of the foremost experts in our field and her talented team. It is exhaustively researched and nuanced but never loses the forest for the trees.

- Janice Fine, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University

This is an exemplary case study in mixed methods research, which shows the value of a thorough integration of rigorous quantitative analysis with rich interview data, complemented by archival, policy, and regulatory analysis. An important aspect of this book is the attention paid to structural barriers to adequate enforcement - in particular, feminization, racialization, and migration and citizenship status. The analysis draws attention to the ways in which these barriers intersect and exemplifies the benefits of using critical and feminist political economy as conceptual frames.

- Sara Charlesworth, School of Management, RMIT University

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