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"From the premise that better work makes for better societies, the challenge, taken up in the introduction to this special issue of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, is to explore what makes work better, or worse, and how it can be improved. As a wide variety of experiments shape our economies and communities for the future, a key challenge is to engage in shared learning about these processes in order to stimulate a dialogue between the aspiration for better work and the conditions likely to hinder or facilitate making work better. It is an invitation to move from narrow conceptions of job quality to a broader lens of how world-of-work actors strategise, innovate and incorporate uncertainty into their search for sustainable solutions for better work. Key themes include: why work needs to be better (but is often worse); why better work makes for better societies; how work can be made better; the role of institutions in achieving better work; and, finally, how union strategies are essential to processes of experimentation to make work better."

"La force d'une règle juridique découle de sa capacité à se répercuter sur les comportements ou à marquer les représentations de ses destinataires. Cet article propose un cadre d'analyse qui confère une crédibilité au point de vue des destinataires du droit et qui permet de mieux comprendre de quelle façon le droit se répercute dans la sphère sociale. L'étude de l'usage des protections proposées par le droit du travail impose toutefois que l'on prenne en compte les spécificités de cette catégorie juridique et que l'on détermine une méthodologie de recherche appropriée au cadre analytique proposé. "

"This article seeks to advance our thinking about better and worse work by developing a novel framework for assessing the quality of work and its implications. It does so in terms of the wider literature on job quality, while addressing the need to embrace a broader agenda and a more dynamic understanding of how to make worse work better. To this end it presents a three-dimensional framework: risk, autonomy and expressiveness. The framework assesses better and worse work and the ways in which workers navigate between these different dimensions of their lives at work. We explore implications for actor strategies and for researchers to take a better-work agenda forward."

"Labour law is a fragmented regulatory landscape bringing together multiple legal sources drawn from various areas of law, institutions, and interactions between multiple regulatory tiers and frameworks. This article offers a conceptual and analytical framework for understanding the intricate contemporary structure of labour law and its effectiveness in ensuring the protections it has historically been intended to provide. The article considers four types of legal fragmentation — temporal, vertical, horizontal, and institutional — distinguished by character and effect. The fragmented architecture of legal regulation leads, unsurprisingly, to complexity. The article puts forward an analytical approach that assesses how labour law's complexity and fragmentation impacts its effectiveness. The article first explains the process of mapping a fragmented regulatory landscape and outlines the analytical benchmarks for assessing legal effectiveness. The concluding section examines labour law as a fragmented landscape and the resulting normative dynamics."

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"Les programmes de migration temporaire constituent une manifestation de la division internationale du travail qui se concrétise par le déplacement de la main-d'oeuvre. Les travailleurs étrangers temporaires et leurs employeurs s'insèrent dans un système d'emploi qui se caractérise par l'action intervenant à l'occasion de la formation, de l'exécution et de la terminaison du rapport salarial. Or, si l'action intervenant au sein d'un système d'emploi résulte notamment des effets des règles juridiques applicables, elle découle également des schémas d'action mis de l'avant par les acteurs qui y interagissent. Cependant, certains de ces acteurs sont susceptibles d'occuper, de façon singulière, la scène de l'action : la prégnance de leurs schémas d'action est directement proportionnelle à la nature et à la portée du rôle qu'ils assument dans le système d'emploi.Cet article présente les résultats d'une étude de terrain qui a permis de cerner les contours du système d'emploi dans lequel s'insèrent les travailleurs agricoles guatémaltèques embauchés via le « Volet agricole » du Programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires. Notre recherche révèle de quelle façon s'organise la capacité d'action des acteurs exogènes et endogènes au champ du travail. Elle permet également de comprendre de quelle façon certains acteurs sont contraints par l'effet de frontières géographiques et systémiques. Finalement, l'appréhension empirique du système d'emploi étudié amène aussi à brosser le portrait d'un rapport salarial multipartite tout à fait singulier."

"Labour law aims to protect the employee, defined as a person who performs work for an employer and is entitled to a wage. Labour law provides tools to distinguish between work time and personal time. However, in several emerging models of work organization, workers must increasingly be available beyond the time actually spent carrying out their work, whether they are at the workplace or elsewhere. It is not clear whether workers are then considered to be performing work and entitled to compensation. Nor is it clear whether these periods are taken into account in the maximum weekly or workday working hours, in the minimum daily and weekly rest periods provided for or when calculating overtime. It is also uncertain whether these workers are deemed to be at work. The various contemporary manifestations of the requirement for workers to be available leads to the question of what constitutes the span of work that is in fact legally regulated by labour law. The results of an empirical study conducted in 2014 (which includes a comprehensive analysis of judicial decisions and data collected from a Quebec administrative body) and an analysis of the debates surrounding the revision ot the European Working Time Directive lead on to a discussion of the capacity of labour law to protect workers who have to be available beyond the time actually required to carry out their work tasks."

"The spectrum of employment-related geographical mobility ranges from hours-long daily commutes to journeys that take workers away from home for an extended period of time. Although distance and travel conditions vary, there is a strong consensus within existing literature that mobility has physical, psychological, and social repercussions. However, is time spent traveling considered as working time? This question is crucial as it dictates whether or not workers can effectively access different sets of labor rights. The objective of this paper is twofold. First, contributing to a deeper understanding of travel time by offering a more sustained and complex representation of the various employment-related travel schemes. Second, assessing the circumstances under which travel time counts as work time with regard to the employment standards legislation in force in four Canadian provinces: Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Colombia."