Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years. The inter-disciplinary and international approach invigorates current debates through the identification of new challenges, subjects and perspectives.

PREFACE New Directions in Labour Regulation Research; S.Lee  & D.McCann PART I: THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES The Evidence-based Case for Labour Regulation; S.Deakin Precarious Employment and the Problem of SER-Centrism in Regulating for Decent Work; L.Vosko The Growth of Extended 'Entry Tournaments' and the Decline of Institutionalized Occupational Labour Markets in Britain; D.Marsden PART II: RECENT COUNTRY EXPERIENCES Laws or Luck?: Understanding Rising Formality in Brazil in the 2000s; J.Berg Labour Market Regulations and the Welfare of Indonesian Workers; Y.Islam The Enactment of Three New Labour Laws in China: Unintended Consequences and Emergence of 'New' Actors in Employment Relationships; F.L.Cooke PART III: OLD CHALLENGES, NEW TECHNIQUES Short Time Compensation as an Employment Stabilization Policy; R.LaJeunesse Gender and the Minimum Wage; D.Grimshaw & J.Rubery Decent Work for Domestic Work: an Achievable Goal or Wishful Thinking?; M.Tomei PART IV: ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE REGULATION The Impact of Labour Regulations: Measuring the Effectiveness of Legal Norms; S.Lee & D.McCann Governing Regulatory Discretion: Innovation and Accountability in Two Models of Labour Inspection Work; R.Pires A Diagnostic Methodology for Regulating Decent Work; D.Frey