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标题：EQUITY BARGAINING IN THE NEW ECONOMY
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作者：Judy Fudge
期刊名称：Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN：1705-1436
出版年度：2006
卷号：8
出版社：York University
摘要：The process of globalization has led to the rapid disintegration of the old industrial model of employment in Canada. The manufacturing sector has shrunk as a source of employment and the share of employment generated by the service sector has massively increased. Traditional public services are being challenged by private corporations, which see an opportunity to increase their ability to make profits. Women's labour market participation has risen dramatically, and an increasing proportion of workers migrate around the globe in order to find employment. Modern information-based systems and technologies have given birth to a new economy, which emphasizes flexibility in the labour market and has hastened the change in employment norms. Simultaneously, there has been a profound increase in precarious work¡ªwork that departs from the standard employment relationship and is poorly paid and incapable of sustaining a household. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), globally, during the last two decades of the twentieth century there has been "a general increase in the precarious nature of employment and the reduction of workers' protection" (2000, 406). This is the context in which unions are trying to bargain greater equity both for and amongst workers. In this comment I look briefly at the new economy, the kinds of the jobs people work at in order to earn a living in the new economy, and who the workers are in the new economy. After that, I want to conclude by looking at the challenge the new economy poses to unions who are committed to bargaining for greater equity