Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Overview of the book; 1 Historical Background; North America; The Divergent Paths of Corporate Law and Labour Law; Brief Historical Background of the Corporation; Winnipeg General Strike; Labour Strikes; Background to the General Strike; Socialist Sympathy as a Cause of the Strike; Growing Communist and Socialist Sympathy; Communist and Socialist Literature; The Role of the SPC; The One Big Union; Another Cause-Soldiers Without Jobs; Sedition; Trial of Russell; Trial of the Other Strike Leaders; Trial of Dixon

Release From PrisonAndrews and the Committee of 1000; Criminalization of Workers Struggles; The Role of the Police in the Strike; Sympathy Strikes; Aftermath, CCF; Workers in Developing Countries: Is an Obligation Implied or Imposed?; The Specter of the Specter of Marx; Workers' Plight; 1800s; 1900s; 2000s; Nike; Arm's Length Exploitation; On the Factory Floor; Neoliberalism and Ontario Laws in the 1990s; Canadian Legislation-The Ontario Government Under Harris; Bill 7 (1995); Bill 31 (1998); Bill 139 (2000); Bibliography for Chapter 1; 2 Current Structure of Labour and Employment Law; Canada

Right to StrikeBackground; Where does the Right to Strike Get its Legality?; Section 2(d) of the Charter; The Labour Trilogy; B.C. Health Services; Natural Justice; The Right to Strike-How Important is It?; Recognition Strikes; Collective Bargaining and the Charter; Framework of Fairness Agreement; The Framework of Fairness Agreement; Criticism of the FFA; Sam Gindin's Critique of the FFA; Other Critics; Works Councils and the German Model; The German Model; Factory Occupations; The United States; Precarious Work; Independent Workers?; Employees, Workers, or Something Else Entirely?

Everyone's a Critic-Yet No One Is in ChargeLet Me Talk to Your Manager-Wait, You Don't Have One?; No Manager? Who Trained You?; Who Is Immune?; Wavering Work; Gigging the Economy: What's Old Is New Again; Platform Capitalism and the New Economy; Labour Platforms; Uber and Seattle; Uber Loses Its License in London; Capital Platforms; Workplaces and Work Spaces; Open Offices; No Workplace and Just Space; Technology and the Ever-Lengthening Chain; Bibliography for Chapter 2; 3 How Can the Law Be Changed; Legislative Framework; Fiduciary Duty to Workers; Fiduciary Duties

How Traditional Corporate Governance Has Failed WorkersCorporations as Citizens; 'Good Corporate Citizen' versus 'Good Samaritan Corporation'; Good Samaritan Corporation; Layering Governance; Employer Free Speech; Increasing Labour Standards on a Worldwide Level; International Labor Organization; Transportable Law/Portable Law; Collective Agreement as Certification Scheme; Consumer Autonomy; Unifor and Community Chapters; Worker Voice; Governance Models; Codes of Conduct as Tools to Increase Workers' Rights; Codes of Conduct; Codes Versus Certifications; Codes as Corporate Reformation