Carol Agocs

Employment Equity in Canada

The Legacy of the Abella Report

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

More than twenty-five years after the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment, Employment Equity in Canada examines the state of employment equity in Canada today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9781442647565
• ISBN-10: 1442647566
• Artikelnr.: 41027924

Autorenporträt

Edited by Carol Agócs Foreword by Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Justice Rosalie Abella
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Perspectives on Employment Equity in Canada (Carol Agócs)
Chapter 1. The Making of the Abella Report: Reflections on the 25th
Anniversary of the Report of the Federal Royal Commission on Equality in
Employment (Carol Agócs)
Chapter 2. Employment Equity in Canada: What Do the Data Show About its
Effectiveness? (Nan Weiner)
Chapter 3. Real Change? Reflections on Employment Equity’s Last Quarter
Century (Raj Anand)
Chapter 4. Women, Intersectionality and Employment Equity (Kim England) 
Chapter 5. Employment Equity and Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples (Michael
Lynk) 
Chapter 6. Employment Equity and Disability: Moving Forward to Achieve
Employment Integration and Fulfill Promises of Inclusion and Participation
(Marcia Rioux and Lora Patton)
Chapter 7. The Equity Landscape for Sexual Minorities in Canada (Gerald
Hunt, David Rayside and Donn Short) 
Chapter 8. Remedying the Experiences of Vulnerable Workers: Links with
Employment Equity (Patricia Hughes) 
Chapter 9. Employment Equity in the Federal Public Service: A Union
Perspective  (Allison Pilon) 
Chapter 10. Securing Employment Equity by Enforcing Human Rights Laws (Mary
Cornish, Fay Faraday and Jan Borowy)
Chapter 11. The Employment Equity Mandate of the United Nations Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Some Preliminary Observations
for Canada (Michael Ashley Stein) 
Chapter 12. New Narratives, Same Old Problems: The Risk of
Diversity-Centered Workplace Decision Making in a “Post-Racial” America
(Natasha Martin) 
Chapter 13. Employment Equity: The Next 25 Years (Brian Burkett) 
Conclusion. Looking Forward: The Unfinished Business of Employment
Equity (Carol Agócs)
List of Contributors 
Index