Book chapter
Alt-Labour and Worker Centres
The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work, pp.481-497
Oxford handbooks, Oxford University Press
2024
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192870360.013.60
Abstract
Working-class disorganization has been a fact in most of the OECD region for many decades. Outcomes of disorganization include increasing economic inequality and the precarization of work. But increasing precarization has also led to a surge in low-wage, often immigrant worker advocacy, not least by so-called ‘alt-labour’ groups that work outside of the collective bargaining framework. Some of these ‘alt-labour’ groups include ‘worker centres’. This chapter describes some of these organizations in the US, Canada, and Australia, and how they might benefit and contribute to labour law. It concludes with research questions to understand how law, including but not limited to labour law, helps to constitute these groups, and how they might impact labour law.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Alt-Labour and Worker Centres
- Creators
- César F Rosado Marzán - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Guy Davidov (Editor) - Hebrew University of JerusalemBrian Langille (Editor) - University of TorontoGillian Lester (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work, pp.481-497
- Series
- Oxford handbooks
- DOI
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192870360.013.60
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9985136716402771
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