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Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy

Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective

by (author) Rodney Haddow & Thomas Klassen

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2006
Category
Economic Policy
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802090904
    Publish Date
    Jun 2006
    List Price
    $110.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442678279
    Publish Date
    May 2006
    List Price
    $110.00

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Globalization is widely believed to have restricted the freedom of policy makers – many fear that the forces of a global economy prevent different political parties from making substantially distinctive policy choices. In Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy, Rodney Haddow and Thomas Klassen explore this contentious issue by comparing labour market policy in Canada’s most populous provinces, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta, between 1990 and 2003.

Using the most up-to-date theoretical approaches available, Haddow and Klassen examine industrial relations, workers’ compensation, occupational health, employment standards, training, and social assistance, measuring the impact of partisanship and globalization on policy-making in these areas. They situate Canada in relation to recent international scholarship on the comparative political economy of developed democracies, and explore the role that institutions play in conditioning labour market policy.

Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy will not only be of interest to experts working in the field of labour market policy, but also to students and teachers of comparative political economy, partisanship, and governance in Canada.

About the authors

Rodney Haddow is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

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THOMAS R. KLASSEN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, and
Coordinator of the Public Policy and Administration Program.

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