Labour Administration in Uncertain Times : Policy, Practice and Institutions.
The 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme economic turbulence that has created multiple challenges for both governments and national systems of labour administration. Difficult economic conditions are encouraging a re-evaluation of established polici...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Geneva :
International Labour Office,
2013.
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- Cover page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the origins anddevelopment of labour administration Jason Heyes and Ludek Rychly; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 THE CONCEPT AND SCOPE OF LABOUR ADMINISTRATION; 1.3 A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF LABOUR ADMINISTRATION; 1.4 RECENT TRENDS IN THE REFORM OF LABOUR ADMINISTRATION; 1.5 OVERVIEW OF THE VOLUME; 2. The changing fortunes of labour administration Ludek Rychly; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 THE KEY FUNCTIONS OF LABOUR ADMINISTRATION; 2.2.1 Labour Legislation at the Crossroads.
- 2.2.2 Industrial Relations: Still a Legitimate Focus of Public Policy?2.2.3 Employment Policy: Whose Territory?; 2.3 INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND THEIR OPERATION; 2.3.1 Allocation of Responsibilities: Combination, Diffusion, Coordination; 2.3.2 Policy Implementation and Service Delivery; 2.3.3 Influence on Policy-making; 2.3.4 The Mandate; 2.3.5 Institutional Capacity: Variations in Funding; 2.3.6 Institutional Capacity: Variations in Staffing; 2.3.7 Material Equipment and Data Management; 2.3.8 Making an Impact: The Quest for Critical Mass; 2.4 CONSEQUENCES OF THE RECENT ECONOMIC CRISIS.
- 2.5 CONCLUSION3. Labour policy and administration in a time of crisis Jason Heyes; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 LABOUR MARKET RESPONSES TO THE CRISIS:AN OVERVIEW; 3.2.1 The Employment Challenge; 3.2.2 Short-time Working; 3.2.3 Training; 3.2.4 Supporting Recruitment and Mobility; 3.2.5 Social Protection; 3.3 NATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN EUROPE: FOUR CASE STUDIES; 3.3.1 Initial Responses to the Crisis; 3.3.2 From Emergency to Austerity; 3.4 CONCLUSION; 4. Labour regulation and the economiccrisis in Europe: challenges, responses and prospects Nicola Countouris and Mark Freedland; 4.1 INTRODUCTION.
- 4.2 DEREGULATION BEFORE THE CRISIS: A MISGUIDED ENTHUSIASM?4.3 FIRST RESPONSES TO THE JOBS CRISIS: 'JOB STABILITY', 'ENHANCED CAPABILITIES' AND 'JOB TRANSITIONS'; 4.3.1 Reasons for Resilience: Protection Revalued; 4.3.2 Training and Transitions
- and the Associated Regulatory Challenges; 4.3.3 The End of the First Phase: a Patchwork Stability; 4.4 FROM 'ECONOMIC CRISIS' TO 'DEFICIT CRISIS'; 4.5 LABOUR LAW IN TIMES OF AUSTERITY: THE DRIVE TO DEREGULATE; 4.6 SOME RECENT PROPOSALS; 4.6.1 Revisiting the Reach of Labour Law; 4.6.2 Ad hoc Regulation for the 'Grey Area' in the Binary Divide.
- 4.6.3 A Reformed 'Binary Divide'
- 'Single Contracts' and 'Tenure Tracks'4.7 CONCLUSIONS: REGULATING PERSONAL WORK RELATIONS FOR DIGNITY, CAPABILITY AND STABILITY; 5. The role of government in industrial relations Richard Hyman; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 STATE, ECONOMY AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: SOME STYLED MODELS; 5.2.1 The Laissez-faire State: Embedding Market Individualism; 5.2.2 The Social State: the Decommodification of Labour Relations; 5.2.3 The Developmental State: the Ideal National Capitalist?; 5.3 SOME KEY DILEMMAS OF STATE REGULATION.