Social Partnerships for Training

by Sharpe, Andrew; Haddow, Rodney

• ISBN13: 9780889117532
• ISBN10: 0889117535
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Queens Univ School of Policy

Summary

This study of social partnerships in the establishment of labour force development boards provides important food for thought for Canadians interested in the continuing problem of high unemployment in Canada. Drawing on recent theory in political science and comparative public policy, Social Partnerships for Training considers obstacles and opportunities associated with active labour market policies in Canada. It takes us through some important experiments in Ontario, Quebec, and other provinces and shows how the complexities of Canadian federalism, Quebec nationalism, and class relations befuddle efforts at new policy approaches. The book also highlights the importance of a lack of political will on the part of our politicians to pursue new policy directions. The curious fate of the development boards tells us a great deal about how labour market policy-making in Canada actually works. The challenge is whether we can build on what was learned about the social partnership approach to active labour market adjustment.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xi
PART ONE: CONTEXT	3	(54)
1. Canada's Experiment with Labour Force Development Boards: An Introduction	3	(22)
Rodney Haddow
Andrew Sharpe
2. Labour Market Corporatism and Labour Market Performance	25	(32)
Andrew Sharpe
Rodney Haddow
PART TWO: CASE STUDIES	57	(234)
3. Transforming the Active Labour Market Policy Network: The Emergence of the Canadian Labour Force Development Board	57	(28)
Craig McFadyen
4. Worth the Candle? Labour Force Development Boards in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick	85	(40)
Rodney Haddow
5. Towards a Renewed Concertation in Quebec: La Societe quebecoise de developpement de la main-d'oeuvre	125	(22)
Andrew F. Johnson
6. La Societe quebecoise de developpement de la main-d'oeuvre: A Postscript	147	(8)
Rodney Haddow
Andrew Sharpe
7. Institutional Limits to Labour Market Reform in Ontario: The Short Life and Rapid Demise of the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board	155	(34)
David A. Wolfe
8. The Saskatchewan Labour Force Development Board: Reforming Labour Market Governance in a Cold Climate	189	(28)
Rodney Haddow
9. The British Columbia Labour Force Development Board: Delivering Consensus	217	(34)
Leif Hommen
10. Tools for the Job? Decentralization, Partnership and Market Forces in British and Canadian Labour Market Policy	251	(40)
Jamie Peck
Tod Rutherford
PART THREE: CONCLUSION	291	(28)
11. Labour Force Development Boards: A Viable Model?	291	(28)
Rodney Haddow
Andrew Sharpe
Contributors	319