Precarious Values

Organizations, Politics, and Labour Market Policy in Ontario

By: Thomas R. Klassen

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Hardcover | 20 March 2000

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The global economy and technological changes have dramatically altered the nature of labour markets. In this context, sub-national governments play an increasingly important role in labour market policy. In Canada, for instance, provinces have extensive powers to help the unemployed and those on social assistance to move into the labour market. Precarious Values analyses the efforts of three Ontario governments in the 1980s and 1990s, led by three different political parties, to design organizations and policies to help the unemployed acquire vocational skills. Thomas Klassen focuses on the birth, life, and eventual decline of two sizeable organizations created to develop strategic labour market policy for the province. The first was a traditional government department, while the second was an ambitious agency that gave business and labour groups control of a budget of over half a billion dollars. Both organizations faced fundamental disagreements over the role of the state, as well as intergovernmental conflicts and animosity between stakeholders.

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Political Structure & Processes Constitution & The Government & The State Industry & Industrial Studies Industrial Relations, Health & Safety Industrial Relations Central Government Central Government Policies Economics Labour Economics Employment & Unemployment

Tables and Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Introduction: Precarious Values and Labour Market Adjustment Policy	p. 1
The Rise of the Ministry of Skills Development: Turmoil and Opportunity	p. 25
The Fall of the Ministry of Skills Development: Unable to Deliver	p. 63
The Birth of the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board: Forging Consensus	p. 91
The Death of the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board: Incompatible Values	p. 117
Conclusions: Precarious Values and the Future	p. 147
Dramatis Personae	p. 163
Methodology	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 195
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