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Welcome to the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work Website! (CRIMT, from its French equivalent Le Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail). CRIMT is an interdisciplinary and interuniversity research centre which focuses on the theoretical and practical challenges of institutional and organizational renewal in the areas of work and employment in the global era. Drawing on more than eighty researchers from sixteen Canadian universities and more than twenty five research institutes and universities in a dozen other countries, its three founding institutions are Université de Montréal, Université Laval and HEC Montréal. CRIMT receives major grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (through its Major collaborative Research Initiatives Program) and the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (Strategic Clusters Program). |
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| 25-26 April 2013 • Conference - CRIMT / Revue Négociations La négociation au travail – Le travail de négociation HEC Montréal (Decelles Building) The Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and the French-language journal Négociations are organizing an international conference on negotiating at work and the work of negotiators. This conference will take place at HEC Montreal on April the 25th and 26th 2013. The working language for the conference will be French (no translation provided for this particular activity). Organizing Committee: Reynald Bourque (CRIMT & Université de Montréal), Karine Drolet (CRIMT & Université de Montréal), Marc-Antonin Hennebert (CRIMT & HEC Montréal), Francine Jacques (CRIMT), Mélanie Laroche (CRIMT & Université de Montréal), Gregor Murray (CRIMT DIrector & Université de Montréal), Claude Rioux (CRIMT), Nicolas Roby (CRIMT et Université de Montréal), Christian Thuderoz (Centre Max Weber & INSA de Lyon), Pierre-Eric Tixier (Sciences Po Paris). (All documents in French only) Program Conference Website Registration |
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| 10 May 2013 • CRIMT-CRSDD Seminar Penser l’entreprise comme institution aujourd’hui – L’apport de la sociologie Denis Segrestin Universités à Sciences Po (Paris) Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO) Summary: L’entreprise peut-elle être observée comme une institution sociale ? Nous l’avons affirmé en d’autres temps, alors que l’on pouvait déceler les signes de la « réhabilitation de l’entreprise » dans la société. Nous le réaffirmons aujourd’hui, en dépit d’une conjoncture adverse dans laquelle la firme est soupçonnée d’avoir sacrifié à la fois sa « forme » et son « âme ». A cette fin, nous remontons aux sources de la théorie de la firme : par-delà le couple hiérarchie / marché, on y retrouve le fil rouge d’une analyse qui postule la nature foncièrement sociale de l’activité économique. Toute une série de questions-clés resurgissent : la singularité des échanges dans l’entreprise en réseau ; l’attachement des firmes à des « régimes » particuliers du capitalisme ; les enjeux politiques sous-jacents au contrôle des firmes. Poursuivant sur cette voie, on réalise qu’il reste bien des « ressorts » à l’entreprise-institution d’aujourd’hui. This seminar is jointly organized by CRIMT and the Social Responsiblity and Sustainable Development Resarch Chair (CRSDD) at ESG UQAM. It will start at 12:00 PM and take place in room C-6070-9 of the 3150 Jean-Brillant Building, at University of Montreal. |
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| 22-24 May 2013 • Canada-China Joint Seminar Canada-China Joint Seminar on Labour Dispute Resolution Holiday Inn Guangzhou City Centre Guangzhou, China This joint seminar seeks to strengthen Canada-China labour cooperation in a targeted area that will have long-term impacts for Canadian businesses and workers and will support respect for fundamental labour/human rights, good governance, and the rule of law in the development of Chinese labour and employment relations. Through formal and informal exchange of information and best practice, as well as through scenario-based problem-solving exercises, the seminar aims to: 1) identify challenges and practical issues in labour dispute resolution in China; 2) examine fundamental elements / mechanisms for effective labour dispute resolution / prevention, including transparency and accountability for government, businesses and unions; 3) exchange and identify consensus on innovative and practical solutions with respect to addressing challenges and practical issues; and 4) disseminate these outcomes. Organized under the auspices of the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada’s Labour Funding Program, in partnership with the School of Industrial Relations (ERIUM) at Université de Montréal, the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), the Canada Research Chair on Globalization and Work and the Guangdong Laowei Law Firm. |
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| 2012 • Collection Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Work Regulation Judy Fudge, Shae McCrystal & Kamala Sankaran (Eds.) Hart Publishing, 350 pages (ISBN: 978-1-849-46279-2) Focusing on paid work that blurs traditional legal boundaries and the challenge this poses to traditional forms of labour regulation, this collection of original case studies illustrates the wide range of different forms of regulation designed to provide decent work. The original case studies cover a diversity of workers from across developed and developing countries, the formal and informal economies and public and private work spaces. Each deals with the failings of traditional labour law, and several explore the capacity of different forms of regulatory techniques, such as commercial law, corporate codes of conduct, or supply chain regulation, to protect workers. Judy Fudge • Blurring Legal Boundaries: Regulating for Decent Work Kamala Sankaran • Flexibility and Informalisation of Employment Relationships Poornima Chikarmane & Lakshmi Narayanan • Transform or Perish: Changing Conceptions of Work in Recycling Richard Johnstone • Informal Sectors and New Industries: The Complexities of Regulating Occupational Health and Safety in Developing Countries Alan Hyde • Legal Responsibility for Labour Conditions Down the Production Chain Joellen Riley • A Blurred Boundary between Entrepreneurship and Servitude: Regulating Business Format Franchising in Australia Brendan Johnson • Developing Legislative Protection for Owner Drivers in Australia: The Long Road to Regulatory Best Practice Shae McCrystal • Organising Independent Contractors: The Impact of Competition Law Juan-Pablo Landa Zapirain • Regulation of Dependent Self-employed Workers in Spain: A Regulatory Framework for Informal Work? Guy Davidov • Freelancers: An Intermediate Group in Labour Law? Guy Mundlak • The Wages of Care-workers: From Structure to Agency Stéphanie Bernstein • Sector-based Collective Bargaining Regimes and Gender Segregation: A Case Study of Self-employed Home Childcare Workers in Quebec Einat Albin • From 'Domestic Servant' to 'Domestic Worker' Dzodzi Tsikata • Employment Agencies and Domestic Work in Ghana Roopa Madhav • Corporate Codes of Conduct in the Garment Sector in Bangalore Anna Pollert • How Britain's Low-paid Non-unionised Employees Deal with Workplace Problems Lizzie Barmes •. Learning from Case Law Accounts of Marginalised Working Publisher's Website |
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| 2011 • Monography Unions and Globalisation. Governments, Management & the State at Work Fairbrother, Peter, J. O'Brien, A. Junor, M. O'Donnell, G. Williams Routledge, 256 pages (ISBN: 978-0-415-41664-1) Publisher's Website |
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| 2011 • Collection The Idea of Labour Law Brian Langille & Guy Davidov (Eds.) Oxford University Press, 456 pages (ISBN: 978-0-19-969361-0) Guy Davidov, Brian Langille • Understanding Labour Law: A Timeless Idea, a Timed-Out Idea, or an Idea Whose Time has Now Come? Harry Arthurs • Labour Law After Labour Bob Hepple • Factors Influencing the Making and Transformation of Labour Law in Europe Manfred Weiss • Re-Inventing Labour Law? Ruth Dukes • Hugo Sinzheimer and the Constitutional Function of Labour Law Adrián Goldin • Global Conceptualizations and Local Constructions on the Idea of Labour Law Alan Hyde • The Idea of the Idea of Labour Law: A Parable Brian Langille • Labour Law's Theory of Justice Judy Fudge • Labour as a 'Fictive Commodity': Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law Hugh Collins • Theories of Rights as Justifications for Labour Law Simon Deakin • The Contribution of Labour Law to Economic and Human Development Guy Davidov • Re-Matching Labour Laws with Their Purpose Mark Freedland, Nicola Kountouris • The Legal Characterization of Personal Work Relations and the Idea of Labour Law Paul Benjamin • Ideas of Labour Law - Views From the South Kamala Sankaran • Informal Employment and the Challenges for Labour Law Noah Zatz • The Impossibility of Work Law Catherine Barnard • Procurement Law to Enforce Labour Standards Katherine V.W. Stone, Scott L. Cummings • Labor Activism in Local Politics: From CBAs to 'CBAs' and Beyond John Howe • The Broad Idea of Labour Law: Industrial Policy, Labour Market Regulation, and Decent Work Guy Mundlak • The Third Function of Labor Law: Distributing Labor Market Opportunities Among Workers Gillian Lester • Beyond Collective Bargaining: Modern Unions as Agents of Social Solidarity Julia López, Consuelo Chacartegui, César G Cantón • From Conflict to Regulation: The Transformative Function of Labour Law Leah Vosko • Out of the Shadows? The Non-Binding Multilateral Framework on Migration (2006) and Prospects for Using International Labour Regulation to Forge Global Labour Market Membership Michael Piore • Flexible Bureaucracies in Labor Market Regulation Silvana Sciarra • Collective Exit Strategies: New Ideas in Transnational Labour Law Adelle Blackett • Emancipation in the Idea of Labour Law: Commoditization, Resistance and Distributive Justice Beyond Borders Publisher's Website |
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| 2011 • Monography Droit fédéral du travail Michel Coutu, Julie Bourgault, Annick Desjardins, avec la collaboration de Guy Dufort et Annie Pelletier Éditions Yvon Blais, 792 pages (ISBN: 978-2-89635-312-5) Publisher's Website |
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| 2010 • Collection Social Regionalism in the Global Economy Adelle Blackett & Christian Lévesque (Eds.) Routledge, 352 pages (ISBN: 978-0-415-48052-9) Adelle Blackett, Christian Lévesque • Introduction: Social Regionalism in the Global Economy Christian Lévesque, Gregor Murray • 1. Asymmetric Integration and the Restructuring of Social Relations in Global Firms: Actors, Institutions and Norms Clemente Ruis Duran, Jorge Carrillo • 2. MNC Strategies and their Linkages with SMEs Christian Lévesque, Hu Hao • 3. The Role of MNCs in Reshaping Employment Relations in China Brian Bercusson • 5. Trade Unions and EU Labour Law Valéria Pulignano • 5. European Works Councils and Trade Union Networking: A New Space for Regulation and Workers’ Solidarity in Europe? Pierre Verge • 6. Solidarity beyond Borders? Canadian Law and Trans-American Union Solidarity Action Brice Adanhounme • 7. Does Social Embeddedness Still Matter? A Case Study in the Ghanaian Mining Sector Arturo Bronstein • 8. The Reformulation of Labour Law in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe Rose-Marie Belle Antoine 9. Mapping the Social in Caribbean Regional Integration Graciela Bensusan • 10. Labour Reform from a Regional Perspective: Experiences in the Americas Marie-Ange Moreau • 11. The Evolution of European Social Integration under Globalization: Some Reflections on Recent Developments Adelle Blackett • The Paradox of OHADA’s Transnational, Hard Law, Labour Harmonization Initiative Chantal Thomas • 13. Trade, Labor, Migration: The ‘NAFTA Corn’ Example Brian Langille • 14. Putting International Labour Law on the (Right) Map Judy Fudge • 15. The Cartography of Transnational Labour Law: Projection, Scale, and Symbolism Publisher's Website |
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| 2010 • Collection Droit international du travail. Perspectives canadiennes Pierre Verge (Ed.) Yvon Blais, 640 pages (ISBN: 978-2-89635-441-2) Gregor Murray • La transnationalisation des modes de production et ses conséquences Pierre Verge • Droit national du travail et transnationalité des rapports de travail Isabelle Duplessis • Un abrégé de l'histoire des normes de l'OIT et de leur application Dominic Roux • Le « droit à un travail décent » affirmé dans les normes internationales de l'ONU et l'OÉA Ou la longue marche d'un vieux couple : le droit du travail et les droits de la personne Adelle Blackett • Commerce international et travail : définir le rôle réglementaire de l'État dans la nouvelle économie Pierre Verge • Les accords de coopération dans le domaine du travail liant le Canada Renée-Claude Drouin • Responsabiliser l'entreprise transnationale : portrait d'une normativité du travail en évolution Charles-Emmanuel Côté • La réception du droit international en droit canadien Pierre Verge, Dominic Roux • L'affirmation des principes de la liberté syndicale, de la négociation collective et du droit de grève selon le droit international et le droit du travail canadien : deux solitudes ? Publisher's Website |
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| 2010 • Collection Vocational Training. International Perspectives Gerhard Bosch & Jean Charest (Eds.) Routledge, 308 pages (ISBN: 978-0-415-46721-6) Gerhard Bosch, Jean Charest • 1. Vocational Training: International Perspectives Richard Cooney, Michael Long • 2. Vocational Education and Training in Australia: The Evolution of a Segmented Training System Jean Charest, Ursule Critoph • 3. Vocational Training in Canada: The Poor Second Cousin in a Well-Educated Family Susanne Wiborg, Pia Cort • 4. The Vocational Education and Training System in Denmark: Continuity and Change Philippe Méhaut • 5. Vocational Training in France: Towards a New ‘Vocationalism’? Gerhard Bosch • 6. The Revitalization of the Dual System of Vocational Training in Germany Jin Ho Yoon, Byung-Hee Lee • 7. The Transformation of the Government-led Vocational Training System in Korea Arnulfo Arteaga García, Sergio Sierra Romero, Roberto Flores Lima • 8. The Vocational Training System in Mexico: Characteristics and Actors, Strengths and Weaknesses Brahim Boudarbat, Mehdi Lahlou • 9. Vocational Training in Morocco: Social and Economic Issues for the Labour Market Helen Rainbird • 10. Vocational Education and Training in the United Kingdom Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg • 11. The Vocational Education and Training System in the United States Publisher's Website |
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| 2010 • Collection Justice et mondialisation en droit du travail. Du rôle du juge aux conflits alternatifs Marie-Ange Moreau, Horatia Muir Watt & Pierre Rodière (Eds.) Dalloz, 310 pages (ISBN: 978-2-247-08549-1) Marie-Ange Moreau • Mondialisation et justice : les enjeux théoriques des conflits sociaux transnationaux Pierre Rodière • Le juge, les droits fondamentaux et l'enchevêtrement normatif : extension des droits fondamentaux/déconstruction du droit social ? Ulrich Mückenberger • Les régulateurs dissimulés : les juges dans l'élaboration normative mondialisée Gilles Trudeau • Du législateur au juge : chronique d'une passation limitée des pouvoirs sur fond de mondialisation économique Sophie Robin-Olivier, Patrick Rémy • Les migrations jurisprudentielles, facteurs de développement du droit international du travail ? Horatia Muir Watt • L'esclavage moderne et la compétence universelle : réflexions sur l'Alien Tort Statute Olivier De Schutter • Le contrôle du respect des droits de l'homme par les sociétés transnationales : le rôle de l'État d'origine Marie-Laure Morin • Le juge français et quelques contentieux significatifs Renée-Claude Drouin • Procédures de règlement interne des différends de droit du travail dans l'entreprise multinationale Claire Marzo • Les risques juridiques créés par les accords-cadres internationaux : opportunités, dangers, stratégies Éric Loquin • L'arbitrage comme instrument d'application des droits sociaux fondamentaux Isabelle Daugareilh • Les modes de règlement para-juridictionnels des différends relatifs aux droits sociaux dans les organisations internationales Alexandre Charbonneau • L'originalité du secteur maritime : interventions judiciaires, règlements alternatifs des conflits et action syndicale Patrick Chaumette • Du statut du navire. En mer, comme nulle part ailleurs ? Publisher's Website |
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| 2010 • Collection Travail et citoyenneté. Quel avenir ? Michel Coutu & Gregor Murray (Eds.) Presses de l'Université Laval, 488 pages (ISBN: 978-2-7637-8771-8) Michel Coutu, Gregor Murray • Travail et citoyenneté : rétrospective et perspectives Harry W. Arthurs • 1. La nouvelle économie et le déclin de la citoyenneté au travail Ron McCallum • 2. La citoyenneté au travail Martine Le Friant, Antoine Jeammaud • 3. Le droit du travail, vecteur de citoyenneté : entre métaphore (française) et droit positif Matthieu de Nanteuil-Miribel • 4. Travail et citoyenneté démocratique: les enjeux d'une politique de la reconnaissance Michel Coutu • 5. Crise de l’État social, droits fondamentaux et citoyenneté au travail Christian Thuderoz • 6. « Citoyens au travail », « entreprises citoyennes » : les motifs d’une convergence inédite Sylvie Morel • 7. Les éclairages de la théorie économique et de l’analyse de genre Christian Brunelle • 8. Le droit à la dignité : une vecteur de la citoyenneté au travail Alain Vinet • 9. Le respect de la santé comme condition de la citoyenneté au travail Arnulfo Arteaga García • 10. Travail et citoyenneté au Mexique à l’ère de la mondialisation Harry W. Arthurs • 11. Un second regard sur la citoyenneté au travail Stéphanie Bernstein • 12. Travail et citoyenneté : redéfinir les communautés, éliminer les frontières Françoise Carré • 13. Quelles politiques publiques pour la citoyenneté au travail ? Judy Fudge • 14. Au-delà de la citoyenneté industrielle : la citoyenneté marchande ou du travail? Michel Coutu, Gregor Murray • 15. Vers une nouvelle citoyenneté au travail ? Publisher's Website |
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| 2010 • Monograph Les alliances syndicales internationales. Des contre-pouvoirs aux entreprises multinationales ? Marc-Antonin Hennebert, in collaboration with Marcel Faulkner L'Harmattan, 204 pages (ISBN: 978-2-296-11672-6) Publisher's Website |
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| 2012 • Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal Freedom of Association in Private Transnational Law: How Enforceable are the Commitments of European Countries in North America? Volume 33, Number 4 Matthew Finkin, Sanford Jacoby (Eds.) Matthew Finkin, Sanford Jacoby • Introduction Kevin Banks, Elizabeth Shilton • Corporate Commitments to Freedom of Association: Is There a Role for Enforcement Under Canadian Law? James J. Brudney • Envisioning Enforcement of Freedom of Association Standards in Corporate Codes: A Journey for Sinbad or Sisyphus? Alvin L. Goldman • Enforcement of International Framework Agreements Under U.S. Law Lance Compa, Fred Feinstein • Enforcing European Corporate Commitments to Freedom of Association by Legal and Industrial Action in the United States: Enforcement by Induatrial Action Dimitris Stevis, Michael Fichter • International Framework Agreements in the United States: Escaping, Projecting, or Globalizing Social Dialogues? Marc-Antonin Hennebert, Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque • The Mobilization of International Framework Agreements: A Source of Power for Social Actors? Gregor Murray • Can Multiple Weak Ties Reverse the Social Regulation Deficit? Multinational Companies and Labor Regulation Rüdiger Krause • International Framework Agreements As Instrument for the Legal Enforcement of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining? The German Case Christopher D. Pigott • Freedom of Association in Private Transnational Law: How Enforceable Are the Commitments of European Companies in North America? Linked activity: Freedom of Association in Private Transnational Law Download the articles (Coming soon - Institutional access required) SSHRC-MCRI Subprojet(s): 3.4 |
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| 2012 • Canadian Journal of Women and the Law Professional Immigrant Women: Access and Integration of Labour Volume 24, Number 1 France Houle (Ed.) Table of Contents: France Houle • Éditorial Femmes immigrantes professionnelles et de métier : accès et intégration au travail France Houle • Editorial Professional Immigrant Women: Access and Integration of Labour Seori Choi, Lenore Lyons • Gender, Citizenship, and Women's 'Unskilled' Labour: The Experience of Filipino Migrant Nurses in Singapore Nouria Ouali • Précarité et déclassement des migrantes diplômées non européennes : menace sur leur projet d'émancipation Maude Boulet • Le degré de déqualification professionnelle et son effet sur les revenus d'emploi des femmes immigrantes membres d'une minorité visible du Québec Marie-Thérèse Chicha • Discrimination systémique et intersectionnalité : la déqualification des immigrantes à Montréal Myriam Hachimi Alaoui • L'intégration sous condition : valeurs non négociables et égalité des sexes Tuulia Law • Cashing in on Cachet?: Ethnicity and Gender in the Strip Club Download the articles (Institutional access required) SSHRC-MCRI Subprojet(s): 2.2.3 |
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| 2012 • Les Cahiers de droit Special section : Les systèmes de représentation au travail : à la mesure des réalités contemporaines ? Volume 53, Number 1 Christian Brunelle (Ed.) Table of Contents: Christian Brunelle • Le système québécois de représentation au travail : une seule voix contre l’injustice, une seule voie vers la justice ? Denis Nadeau • Monopole de représentation syndicale et droits individuels salariés : l’incontournable défi de la diversité ! Jean Bernier • L’arbitrage de griefs : un système de justice privé ou public ? Linked activity: Employee Representation in the New World of Work Download the articles (Institutional access required) SSHRC-MCRI Theme(s): 3 |
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| 2011 • Canadian Journal of Law and Society The Disenchantment of Critical Legal Thought? Michel Coutu, Pierre Guibentif (Eds.) Table of Contents: Michel Coutu, Pierre Guibentif • Introduction: Le désenchantement de la pensée juridique critique? Michel Coutu, Pierre Guibentif • Introduction: The Disenchantment of Critical Legal Thought? Jean-Guy Belley, Nicholas Kasirer • What Legal Culture for the Twenty-First Century? Nicholas Kasirer • How Jean-Guy Belley Thinks: A Translator’s Note Jean-Guy Belley • Le pluralisme juridique comme orthodoxie de la science du droit Pierre Guibentif • Nouveau pluralisme juridique et transformations de l’individu Roderick A. Macdonald • Custom Made—For a Non-chirographic Critical Legal Pluralism Julie Paquin • Contrats et internormativité, de Saguenay à Dakar Violaine Lemay, Alexandra Juliane Law • Les multiples vertus d’une ouverture pluraliste en théorie du droit : l’exemple de l’analyse du phénomène de cause lawyering Samia Amor • Le « nouveau pluralisme juridique » de Belley: ancien paradigme dans l’archéologie du droit islamique ? Idil Atak, France Houle • Perspectives institutionnelles sur la consultation lors du processus réglementaire fédéral au Canada Michel Coutu, Thierry Kirat • John R. Commons et Max Weber: les fondements d’une sociologie économique et pluraliste du droit Download the articles (Institutional access required) SSHRC-MCRI Subprojet(s): 3.5.1 |
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| 2011 • Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations Employee Representation in the New World of Work: The Dynamics of Rigths, Voice, Performance and Power Volume 66, Numéro 4 Christian Brunelle, Annette Hayden, Gregor Murray (Eds.) Table of Contents: Christian Brunelle, Annette Hayden, Gregor Murray • Les systèmes de représentation au travail : à la mesure des réalités contemporaines ? Christian Brunelle, Annette Hayden, Gregor Murray • Employee Representation in the New World of Work: The Dynamics of Rights, Voice, Performance and Power Nelson Lichtenstein • Labour, Liberalism, and the Democratic Party: A Vexed Alliance Christian Dufour, Adelheid Hege • L’évolution de la négociation collective et de ses acteurs dans six pays européens Barbara Pocock • Rethinking Unionism in a Changing World of Work, Family and Community Life Charlotte A.B.Yates • Organizing Women in the Spaces between Home, Work and Community Janice R. Fine • New Forms to Settle Old Scores: Updating the Worker Centre Story in the United States Urwana Coiquaud • La représentation collective des travailleurs précaires : évolution et défis contemporains Marie-Josée Legault, Martine D’Amours • Représentation collective et citoyenneté au travail en contexte de projet Linked activity: Employee Representation in the New World of Work Download the articles (Institutional access required) SSHRC-MCRI Theme(s): 3, 4 |
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| 2011 • La Revue de l'IRES Les délégués et le renouveau syndical Volume 68, Number 1 Adelheid Hege, Christian Lévesque, Gregor Murray, Christian Dufour (Eds.) Table of Contents: Adelheid Hege, Christian Lévesque, Gregor Murray, Christian Dufour • Les délégués, acteurs stratégiques du renouveau syndical ? Christian Dufour, Adelheid Hege • Diversité des équipes de délégués et fondements communs de la représentation collective Andy Charlwood, John Forth • Les mutations de la représentation des salariés en Grande-Bretagne Melanie Simms • Les militants de terrain dans les campagnes d'implantation syndicale dans le secteur des services en Grande-Bretagne Ingrid Artus • Les salariés précaires et la codétermination en Allemagne - la représentation colective au-delà des normes Catherine Le Capitaine, Christian Lévesque, Gregor Murray • Contre vents et marées : le délégué au coeur du renouveau syndical David Peetz, Michael Alexander • Sept thèses sur la formation syndicale. Propositions à partir d'enquêtes sur les lieux de travail en Australie Michael Whittall, Herman Kotthoff • Les comités d'entreprise européens, des zones libres de syndicats ? Linked activity: Les pratiques des délégués Download the articles (Free access) SSHRC-MCRI Subprojet(s): 4.4.11 |
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| 18 October 2012 • Research Seminar The Shop Steward in the Danish Industrial Relations Model: A flawless change from centralization to decentralization of the collective bargaining system Steen E. Navrbjerg University of Copenhagen, Denmark The shop steward is a corner stone of the Danish Industrial Relations (IR) model. Shop stewards are the main drivers for cooperation at the company level and the importance of the role of the shop steward has further increased in the context of the decentralization of collective bargaining. In this conference, Steen Navrbjerg presents the Danish model of industrial relations and show how the Danish system has managed to change from a centralized to decentralized system, without losing shop stewards’ interest and motivation in the process. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. |
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| 9 October 2012 • Research Seminar Strategic HRM in Multinational Corporations: When Practice Meets Theory Dana Minbaeva Copenhagen Business School, Denmark This presentation put emphasis on strategy implementation as the focal construct in strategic HRM. It started with a discussion of HR-related challenges multinational corporations (MNCs) are facing in the dynamic and highly competitive global marketplace. Then, focusing on global talent management, it explained how the fit between the global HR architecture and the strategic business processes can enhance the effectiveness of MNCs’ strategic responses to the identified challenges. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. |
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| 15 June 2012 • 2nd Pierre Verge Conference Le droit du travail français est-il encore un droit de protection des salariés? Jean Pélissier Emeritus Professor, Université Toulouse I, France This seminar was held at Université Laval. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference (In French). |
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| 11 April 2012 • Master Class Thinking about social regulation : theoretical and practical issues Christian Thuderoz INSA-Lyon, France (Still) thinking about social regulation (negotiation), 50 years after Walton and McKersie and Allan Flanders, 30 years after Howard Raiffa and Bill Zartman: is it useful? Yes, because it establishes a rational-negotiated (and more efficient) model of decision-making at a time when traditional hierarchical institutions are in decline, the demands for employees to participate in decisions concerning their lives and work are increasing and it is becoming urgent to rethink work and its institutions in light of new social regulations which bring about new and more intense arrangements. We must, therefore, think about this (negotiated) re-written landscape of how we live together within the business organization. What theoretical tools do we apply? To achieve what kind of changes? How do we equip the actors? Christian Thuderoz and Reynauld Bourque, both CRIMT co-researchers, are the authors of Sociologie de la négociation (2011), published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes. This seminar was held at University of Montreal. Download the PowerPoint presentation (In French). Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference (In French). |
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| 24 November 2011 • Research Seminar Jumping Scale, Crossing Space: The JfJ and Organizing Cleaners for Global Strength Luis LM Aguiar Sociology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, British Columbia Arguably neoliberalism has done the most damage to the already vulnerable workforces in the economy. Building cleaners, as part of this workforce, have suffered from privatization, contracting out, as well as post-industrial labour legislation and the fiscal crisis of the welfare state. The result is a sweatshop citizenship (Aguiar 2006) bordering on ‘advanced marginality’ (Wacquant 2008) threatening to permanently expulse cleaners (and other low wage workers) to the desertion fields of (neo)neoliberalism (Crouch 2011; Boltanski and Chiapello 2004; Bauman 2007; Agamben 2005). To counter this assault on cleaners, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has globalized its justice for janitors organizing model for the purpose of building global strength to deal with the neoliberalism of global cleaning companies, and in the process, secure protection and achieve gains for cleaners everywhere. Is the justice for janitors (JfJ) model the model for organizing in the 21st century? How is this model transitioning into transnational organizing and places, and by what mechanisms and structures is this being done, is the focus of this seminar. Luis Aguiar will examine (1) the JfJ model, (2) mechanisms and structures of transnational organizing and (3) the meaning of partnerships between the SEIU and partner unions (e.g. FNV Bondgenoten in the Netherlands; LHMU in Australia [and perhaps the SIPTU in Ireland]) set-up to arrest the erosion of cleaners’ rights and stymie the proliferation of the sweatshop citizenship status. Through interviews at the SEIU HQ in Washington, as well as fieldwork in Australian, and Amsterdam, the author seeks to understand the flexibility of the JfJ model and the meaning of partnership in the context of a union with global ambitions. This presentation will end by discussing the idea of “solidarity transformed” (Anner 2011), and the extent to which the SEIU’s globalizing of the JfJ is an example of this concept. This seminar was held at University of Montreal. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. |
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| 14 October 2011 • Regular Seminar La notion de 'politiques publiques' vue par la sociologie du droit Jacques Commaille Professor Emeritus, Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, ENS-Cachan Held at the University of Montreal, this seminar explored the relationship between law and public policy. By highlighting the complexity of this relationship and detailing the debates it has given rise to, Jacques Commaille addressed the prospects for linking law and public policy, especially in the current context. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. |
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| 14 April 2011 • Research Seminar Unions and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies Peter Fairbrother RMIT University, Australia / CRIMT Held at HEC Montréal, this seminar reviewed the questions facing unions in relation to a low carbon economy. The focus was on the politics of transition and the drivers that underpin such shifts in union pupose and capacity. It consider the recent history in the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, where four major electricity generators and their open cast mines produce over 80 per cent of the electricity requirements for Victoria. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. |
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| 30 March 2011 • Research Seminar The ILO. ...Whys and Wherefores Patrick Carrière Distinguished consultant on labour law and former Senior Legal Officer of the Freedom of Association branch at the International Labour Office in Geneva. Held at McGill University, this seminar was organized in collaboration with the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory and the Law Faculty at McGill University. Laval University joined live via videoconferencing. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. |
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| 11 March 2011 • Research Seminar La place de la négociation collective dans six pays européens : de la cohérence des systèmes à la construction des acteurs Christian Dufour Associate Researcher, CRIMT Adelheid Hege Institut de recherches économiques et sociales (IRES), France / CRIMT Summary (French only): Au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années, des transformations profondes ont affecté les organisations syndicales et leur place dans les sociétés au sein lesquelles elles sont nées. Les environnements économiques ont été bouleversés et les anciennes cohérences identitaires se sont étiolées. La négociation collective, activité centrale des syndicalismes quelle que soit la diversité des approches et des agencements à l’œuvre, ne pouvait pas ne pas en être affectée. À la demande de la CFDT et de la CGT en France, et pour l'Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (IRES), Christian Dufour et Adelheid Hege viennent de compléter une étude sur l’évolution des stratégies de négociation collective mises en œuvre par des organisations syndicales de six pays européens (Allemagne, Espagne, France, Grande-Bretagne, Italie et Suède). Ce séminaiire visait la présentation de résultats d'enquêtes combinant un travail de synthèse des grands changements intervenus en Europe au cours des 25 dernières années, avec une approche de terrain fondée sur des enquêtes auprès d'acteurs collectifs oeuvrant au sein des pays concernés. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. |
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| 8 November 2010 • Research Seminar Chairing the United Nations Treaty Body on Disability: Problems, Pitfalls and Reform of the Treaty Body System Ron McCallum University of Sydney, Australia / CRIMT Held at the University of Montreal (retransmitted in Université Laval via videoconference) and organized in collaboration with the Office des personnes handicapées du Québec, the seminar focused on the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006 ) to which Canada is a signatory since March 2010. Ron McCallum, who chairs the UN committee responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Convention at the international level, discussed the work of the committee, including the challenges encountered in performing their duties. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. |
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| 23-24 September 2010 • International Conference On September 23rd and 24th 2010, an international conference entitled Union Action Without Borders was held in Montreal, Canada. Organized in collaboration with the CISO, the CSQ, the CSN and the FTQ, this activity aimed to take stock of the various solidarity initiatives implemented by trade unions at the local, national and international levels. Over fifty scholars and trade unionists, both from Canada and abroad, have shared their research and testified of their experiences of international solidarity. This conference was part of CRIMT’s series of outrearch activities designed to foster exchanges between scholars and labour market partners. Visit the post-conference Website to watch the full video content of the conference (over 35 presentations). |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the opening plenary session of the Conference. Entitled International trade union actions: challenges and issues, it featured presentations by Peter Bakvis (Director, Washington Office of the International Trade Union Confederation), Napoleon Gomez (Executive committee member of IMF, and National President, SNTMMS), Michèle Asselin (Coordinator, CISO) et Richard Hyman (London School of Economics and Political Science). Présentations PowerPoint : Peter Bakvis, Richard Hyman |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the closing plenary session of the Conference. Entitled Summary and New Avenues for Action, it featured presentations by Denise Gagnon (Director, International Solidarity Service, FTQ), Richard Langlois (International Relation Officer, CSQ), Jacques Létourneau (Deputy to the Executive Committee, CSN) et Lucien Royer (Director, International Department, CLC). |
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| 16-18 June 2010 • International Conference On June 16th, 17th and 18th 2010, an international conference entitledEmployee Representation in the New World of Work: The Dynamics of Rights, Voice, Performance and Power was held in Quebec city. Organized in collaboration with the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA), the conference focused on a number of key issues relating to employee representation in the new world of work, including: the relevance in today's workplace of the founding principles of different representative systems; how different types of employee representation regimes deal with issues facing the contemporary worker; the emerging models and actors for employee rights and representation; the kinds of public policy, actors, strategies, capabilities and research that are necessary to rethink employee representation in the contemporary workplace. Visit the post-conference Website to watch the full audio-video content of the conference (over 285 presentations). |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the H.D. Woods Memorial Lecture pronounced by Guylaine Vallée (University of Montreal / CRIMT) in the context of the Conference. | ![]() |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the Inaugural Pierre Verge Lectureprononced by the Honourable Mr. Justice Louis LeBel, Supreme Court of Canada, in the context of the Conference. | ![]() |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the plenary presentation of Nelson Lichtenstein (University of California at Santa Barbara) on the brith and evolution of the Wagner model. | ![]() |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the plenary presentation of Richard Hyman (London School of Economics and Political Science) entitled The Ambiguities of Employee Rights and Representation: A European Perspective. PowerPoint Presentation: Richard Hyman |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the plenary presentation of Urwana Coiquaud (HEC Montréal / CRIMT) entitled La représentation collective des travailleurs précaires : évolution et défis contemporains. PowerPoint Presentation: Urwana Coiquaud |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the plenary presentation of Charles Heckscher (Rutgers University / CRIMT) on the contemporary challenges faced by employee representation in the US. | ![]() |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the plenary presentation of Mark Hall (University of Warwick) entitled The Ambiguities of Employee Rights and Representation: A European Perspective PowerPoint Presentation: Mark Hall |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the plenary presentation of Barbara Pocock (University of South Australia / CRIMT) on the future of employee representation. Présentation PowerPoint : Barbara Pocock |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the plenary presentation of Harry Arthurs (York University / CRIMT) on the future of employee representation. | ![]() |
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| 16 April 2010 • Outreach Seminar For over 75 years, Quebec's collective agreement decrees regime has evolved to adapt to different realities. Periodically, there are voices saying that this "anomaly" of the industrial relations system should be abolished. Others, however, highlight the need to keep the regime, and seek to improve it because of its ability to better the conditions of vulnerable workers and increase their say in the determination of their own working conditions. On April 16, 2010, a seminar entitled Perspectives on the Quebec collective agreement decrees regime (QCADR) was held in Montreal. Organized in collaboration with Quebec’s Joint Committees Association (Association des comités paritaires du Québec, or ACPQ), this seminar aimed to present different perspectives on the QCADR, as well as to stimulate exchanges between scholars and labour market partners about its future. |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch Patrick Martel (University of Montreal / CRIMT) and Jean Charest (University of Montreal / CRIMT) talk about the impact the abolition of the collective agreement decree had on workers in the Quebec garment industry. | ![]() |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch Christiane Bigras (Director general, Joint committee, Public bulding maintenance), Mélanie Laroche (University of Montreal / CRIMT) and Jacques Rouillard (University of Montreal) share their historical, contemporary and future perspectives on Quebec's collective agreement decrees regime. |
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| 14 April 2010 • Research Seminar Au-delà de la crise économique en Europe: analyse de l'agenda Europe 2020 Philippe Pochet Director, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium / CRIMT Philippe Pochet cast a critical eye on the exit strategies social partners deployed in the face of the global financial crisis, and in particular on the debates surrounding the Europe 2020 agenda and the future of the European employment policy. This seminar was organized in collaboration with the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. ETUI Policy Brief-AN ETUI Policy Brief-FR Europe 2020 - Consultation document - European Commission |
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| 29 March 2010 • International Semimar (Outreach Activity) More than forty years after having recognized the urgency of a study on the working conditions of domestic workers, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is on track to adopt an international labour standard on decent work for domestic workers before the end of 2011. The ILO’s 2009 report, which seeks to provide an account of the situation and working conditions of domestic workers across the world, can be consulted Online. Supported financially by Human Resources and Skills Development, and organized in collaboration with the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, this international seminar aimed to bring together social partners, including domestic workers' associations, and international and interdisciplinary researchers specialized in the field in order to encourage an intensive consultation between the various participants concerned by the issue of decent work for domestic workers. This seminar also presented an opportunity for exchange between researchers and social partners to identify the policy issues involved and to compare different regulatory approaches adopted in various countries. It also seeked to provide an opportunity for social partners to share their reflections on the presentations and their expertise in the area before the two upcoming sessions of the International Labour Conference in Geneva in June 2010 and 2011. Finally, this activity offered a chance for Canada to celebrate the 90 years since the ILO was established in 1919. To that end, a special exhibit commemorating the time during which Montreal was host to the ILO during the Second World War was presented in the Atrium of McGill University's Faculty of Law. Visit the post-seminar Website to listen to the full audio content of the seminar (over 15 presentations). |
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| 11 March 2010 • Research Seminar Organiser la résistance contre un plan social en France. Le travail d’entrepreneurs militants Rachel Beaujolin-Bellet Reims Management School, France Summary (French only): En France, l’annonce de « plans sociaux » suscite dans bien des cas l’organisation d’actions collectives par les salariés et leurs représentants. Des actions visibles de résistance collective sont menées dans un contexte de survie (Amossé et al., 2008), donnant lieu à des conflits « défensifs » (Groux et Pernot, 2008) qui sont souvent intenses. In this seminar held at HEC Montréal, Rachel Beaujolin-Bellet addressed how resistance to restructuring is organized and, more specifically, touched on the creative role the ‘entrepreneurs militants’ play in shaping the conflict. This seminar was organized in collaboration with the Strategy as Practice Study Group of HEC Montréal. Click on image (on the right) to watch the conference. Accompanying Document |
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| 18 February 2010 • Research Seminar Le syndicalisme européen : quelles crises ? Marco Ancelovici McGill University, Canada Christian Dufour Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (IRES), France / CRIMT Adelheid Hege Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (IRES), France / CRIMT Dominique Labbé Institut d'Études Politiques de Grenoble, France George Ross Brandeis University, USA / University of Montreal, Canada Participants in this seminar held at the University of Montreal have taken an uncompromising look at the state of European trade unions (German and French, especially), the forms of unionism they practice and the opportunities posed by the many challenges they face. Accompanying Document - C. Dufour et A. Hege TOUJOURS MOINS ! Déclin du syndicalisme à la française - D. Labbé |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the presentations of Dominique Labbé (Institut d'Études Politiques de Grenoble) and Adelheid Hege (Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales - IRES / CRIMT). | ![]() |
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| Click on image (on the right) to watch the presentations of Marco Ancelovici (McGill University), George Ross (Brandeis University / Université of Montreal) and Christian Dufour (Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales - IRES / CRIMT). | ![]() |
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