-----Original Message----- From: Jim Stanford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 31, 2000 7:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Labour Market Regulation & Deregulation Conference >Labour Market Regulation and Deregulation: >Challenges and Prospects in the 21st Century > >December 1 - 2, 2000 >York University, Toronto, Canada > >CONTEXT: > >LABOUR MARKET REGULATION AND DEREGULATION: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS IN THE >21ST CENTURY is an international conference sponsored by York University's >Centre for Research on Work and Society. The conference is the culmination >of activities CRWS' Working Group on Labour Market Regulation and >Deregulation, a circle of over 30 researchers drawn from several academic >disciplines and non-academic environments from around the world. The >Working Group, co-chaired by Jim Stanford, an economist with the Canadian >Auto Workers, and Leah Vosko, a professor of Labour Studies and Political >Science at McMaster University, is motivated by the need to challenge the >currently dominant view that policies of labour market "flexibility", >modelled on the US experience, offer an effective means of reducing >long-run unemployment and promoting economic growth. > >FORMAT AND PARTICIPATION: > >The one and a half day event comprises a keynote address and five panels >covering today's most challenging labour market regulation issues. Each >panel will feature presentations by international scholars followed by >discussion and commentary from all conference participants. >The cutting-edge analysis of current processes of labour market regulation >and deregulation from a multi-disciplinary perspective will appeal to a >wide range of researchers and policy makers. The conference will give all >participants the opportunity to meet and discuss viable alternatives to >the dominant policy framework of continued labour market (de)regulation. > >***REGISTRATION*** > >For detailed REGISTRATION information visit our website: >www.yorku.ca/research/crws > > >PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME > >FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2000 > >OPENING REMARKS > >Jim Stanford, Economist CAW, CRWS Council, Working Group Co-Chair > >Leah Vosko, Labour Studies and Political Science, McMaster University, >Working Group Co-Chair > >PANEL #1: THE NEW ECONOMICS OF LABOUR MARKET REGULATION > >Malcolm Sawyer, Economics Division, Leeds University Business School. "The >NAIRU, Labour Market Flexibility' and Full Employment" > >Thomas I. Palley, Assistant Director of Policy, AFL-CIO, >Washington. "Accounting for Unemployment in the OECD: Evidence on the Role >of Macroeconomic Slowdown and Labour Market Institutions" > >Peter Auer,Employment Strategy Department, International Labour >Organization. "Europe's Employment Revival: Four Successful European >Countries Compared" > >Dave Broad, Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina >"Taking the Part of Part-timers: Can Labour Standards Legislation Be Used >to Benefit Part-time Workers?" > >DINNER AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS >( Sponsored by the Candian Labour Congress) > >"France's 35-hour Work Week: Lessons for Canada" >Jean Paul Bouchet, Union des ingenieurs et cadres, France >Julie White, Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada > >SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2000 > >PANEL #2:GLOBAL DIVERSITY IN LABOUR MARKET STRUCTURES > >Manfred Bienefeld, Faculty of Public Adminstration, Carleton University, >Ottawa. Linana Lakounina and Tatyana Tchetvernina, Centre for Labour >Studies at the Economics Institute in the Russian Academy of Sciences >"From Extreme Rigidity to Extreme Flexibility: Evidence from a Radical >Experiment" > >Marlea Clarke, University of Cape Town, South Africa >"Labour Market Policies in the New South Africa" > >Michael John Whittall, Nottingham-Trent-University, UK >"European Labour Market Regulation: The Case of European Works Councils" > >PANEL #3: THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRMS AND LABOUR MARKET REGULATION > >Liisa Cormode, Department of Geography, University of >Saskatchewan. "Within The Network: Relational Labour Markets As A New >Paradigm For Labour Market Regulation?" > >Michel Grant, University of Qubec at Montral (UQAM). >"Deregulating the Industrial Relations System in the Apparel Sector" > >Joan McFarland, Department of Economics, Saint Thomas >University. "Technology, Geography, and Regulation: The Case of Call >Centres in New Brunswick." >PANEL #4: WHO'S FLEXIBLE, WHO ISN'T? GENDER, RACE AND LABOUR MARKET >SEGMENTATION > >Cynthia Cranford, Department of Sociology, University of Southern >California. "Spatial and Symbolic Challenges to Flexibility: Latina >Immigrant Janitors in Los Angeles" > >George Callaghan, Staff Tutor in Social Sciences, The Open University, >U.K."Emotional labour in call centres: a new form of flexibility?" > >Martha MacDonald, Economics Department, Saint Mary's University. "The >Crisis in Rural Labour Markets: Failures and Challenges for Regulation" > >Stephen McBride, Political Science Department, Simon Fraser >University. "Towards Perfect Flexibility: Youth in Today's Labour Market" > >PANEL #5: REGULATING WORK AND INCOME: REVITALIZING AN ALTERNATIVE VISION > >Stephanie Luce, Economics Department, University of Massachusetts at >Amherst. "The U.S. Living Wage Movement" > >Steve Jefferys, University of North London, UK >"Critical Times for French Employment Regulations: The 35-hour Week and >the Challenge to Social Partnership" > >Don Wells, Labour Studies, McMaster University >"Neoliberalism,Triangle Manufacturing and the Regulation of Labour >Standards in Global Supply Chains" > >Marjorie Cohen, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser >University. "Protecting Labour through Trade Agreements: Possibilities and >Traps" > >CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORED BY: > >Canadian Auto Workers >Canadian Labour Congress >Canadian Union of Postal Workers >Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada >Labour Studies, McMaster University >Labour Studies, University of Windsor >Labour Studies, York University >Public Service Alliance of Canada >Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada >United Food and Commercial Workers
