Join us for the book launch of
Regulating Flexibility: The Political Economy
of Employment Standards
By Mark P. Thomas

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 7pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord Street (southwest corner at Spadina)
free. all welcome. refreshments provided
we regret out washroom is not wheelchair accessible

In a contemporary labour market that includes growing levels of precarious employment, the regulation of minimum employment standards is intricately connected to conditions of economic security. With a focus on the role of neoliberal labour market policies in promoting "flexible" employment standards legislation - particularly in the areas of minimum wages and working time - Mark Thomas argues that shifts toward "flexible" legislation have played a central role in producing patterns of labour market inequality.

The evening's launch will include a talk by Mark Thomas, a Q&A session and a panel of speakers, including Deena Ladd (Workers Action Centre), Leah Vosko (Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy, York University) and Pura Velasco (Caregivers Action Centre).

Mark P. Thomas is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University.

Co-sponsored by McGill-Queen's University Press, York University Department of Sociology, York University Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought and York University Centre for Research on Work and Society.