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Eric Tucker

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Canada

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University (Visiting)

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2121 Euclid Avenue, LB 138

Cleveland, OH 44115-2214

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  • York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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1.

The Constitutional Right to Bargain Collectively: The Ironies of Labour History in the Supreme Court of Canada

CLPE Research Paper No. 3/2008, Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 61, Spring 2008
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Jan 2008
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 502 (41,173)

Abstract:

labour law, constitutional law, labour history

2.

The Freedom to Strike in Canada: A Brief Legal History

(2010), 15:2 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 333-53
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2010
Eric Tucker and Judy Fudge
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Kent Law School
Downloads 403 (40,436)

Abstract:

stikes, Canada, legal history

3.

Renorming Labour Law: Can We Escape Labour Law's Recurring Regulatory Dilemmas?

Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 99-138, 2010
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 13 May 2013
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 320 (66,009)

Abstract:

Labour Law, Theory, Regulatory Dilemmas

4.

Layers of Vulnerability in Occupational Health and Saftey for Migrant Workers: Case Studies from Canada and the United Kingdom

Policy and Practice in Occupational Health and Safety, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 51-73, 2010, CLPE Research Paper No. 8/2009
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2017
Malcolm Sargeant and Eric Tucker
Middlesex University - Business School and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 289 (72,360)
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Immigration, employment, vulnerability, Canada, UK, migrant workers, occupational health and safety

5.

Old Lessons for New Governance: Safety or Profit and the New Conventional Wisdom

In Theo Nichols and David Walters, eds., Safety Or Profit?: International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment (New York: Baywood Press, 2013), 71-95., Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 38/2012
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2013
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 235 (97,542)
Citation 1

Abstract:

Regulation, Governance, Labour, Employment, Health, Safety, Work, Occupational Health and Safety

6.

Employee or Independent Contractor? Charting the Legal Significance of the Distinction in Canada

Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 193-230, 2003
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2011
Eric Tucker, Judy Fudge and Leah Vosko
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, Kent Law School and York University
Downloads 218 (90,525)

Abstract:

independent contractors, labour and employment legislation, statutory protection of entrepreneurs, common and civil law of employment, denying coverage of employees, distinction of employees and independent contractors

7.

Worker Participation in Health and Safety Regulation: Lessons from Sweden

Studies in Political Economy, Vol. 37, p. 95, 1992, SWEDISH SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: A MODEL IN TRANSITION, Clement, Wallace and Rianne Mahon, eds., Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2011
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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8.

New Approaches to Enforcement and Compliance with Labour Regulatory Standards: The Case of Ontario, Canada

Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 31/2011
Number of pages: 143 Posted: 22 Dec 2011
Leah F. Vosko, Eric Tucker, Mary Gellatly and Mark P. Thomas
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, Parkdale Community Legal Services and York University - Sociology
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'Great Expectations' Defeated?: The Trajectory of Collective Bargaining Regimes in Canada and the U.S. Post-NAFTA

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2005, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 05-110
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 20 Apr 2005
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 158 (149,797)

Abstract:

labor, globalization, collective bargaining, NAFTA

10.

From Condition of Limited Liability to Exceptional Remedy: The History of Shareholder and Director Liability for Unpaid Workers' Wages in Canada

Law & History Review, Vol. 26, pp. 57-98, 2008, CLPE Research Paper No. 08/2008
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 116 (189,904)

Abstract:

labor law, shareholder liability, director liability, unpaid wages

11.

Labour's Many Constitutions (and Capital's Too)

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 33, pp. 355-378, 2012, Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 6
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 12 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2014
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 114 (180,807)

Abstract:

Labour rights, Constitutionalization, Political Economy

12.

The Westray Mine Disaster and its Aftermath: The Politics of Causation

Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 91-123, 1995
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2011
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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13.

Death by Consensus: The Westray Story

New Solutions, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 14-41, 1993, LABOUR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY: A READER, David Frank and Gregory Kealey, eds., Acadiensis Press, 1996
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Jul 2011
Eric Tucker and Harry J. Glasbeek
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 95 (168,853)
Citation 1

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Westray mine, Westray mine disaster, political context of Westray mine disaster, political economy and Westray Mine

14.

Pluralism or Fragmentation? The Twentieth-Century Employment Law Regime in Canada

Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 46, pp. 251-306, 2000
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Mar 2010
Eric Tucker and Judy Fudge
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Kent Law School
Downloads 88 (226,246)
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15.

'Everybody Knows What a Picket Line Means': Picketing Before the British Columbia Court of Appeal

BC Studies, No. 162, pp. 53-79, Summer 2009
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Nov 2009
Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker
Kent Law School and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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16.

Diverging Trends in Worker Health and Safety Protection and Participation in Canada, 1985-2000

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Vol. 58, No. 3, 2003
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2011
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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17.

Worker Health and Safety Struggles: Democratic Possibilities and Constraints

New Solutions, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 61-69, Winter 1996
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 21 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2012
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 75 (253,342)
Citation 1

Abstract:

occupational health and safety hazards, capitalism and occupational health, occupational saftey and capitalism

18.

Shall Wagnerism Have No Dominion?

21 Just Labour, (Spring 2014), Osgoode Hall Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 30/2014, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-271
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 May 2014 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2015
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 67 (288,725)

Abstract:

Labour Law, Collective Bargaining, Wagner Act Model, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian law, Employment law

19.

Remapping Worker Citizenship in Contemporary Occupational Health and Safety Regimes

International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 145-170, 2007
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Mar 2010
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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20.

Giving Voice to the Precariously Employed? Mapping and Exploring Channels of Worker Voice in Occupational Health and Safety Regulation

Published in Malcolm Sargeant and Martina Ori, eds., Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Working (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), 33-70., Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 14/2013
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2013
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 55 (281,987)

Abstract:

occupational health and safety, regulation, labour law, precarious employment

21.

Who’s Running the Road? Street Railway Strikes and the Problem of Constructing a Liberal Capitalist Order in Canada, 1886-1914

Law and Social Inquiry, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 451-85, 2010
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 08 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2010
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 44 (336,484)

Abstract:

labor history, collective action, liberal order, strikes, collective violence

22.

Locating Labour Law: Conflicting Perspectives and the Case of Occupational Health and Safety

(2006) Elizabeth Commack, ed., Locating Law, 2nd edition, (Halifax: Fernwood), 152-179
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2013
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 39 (313,552)

Abstract:

labour law, locating law, occupational health, safety, OHS, employment

23.

Can Worker Voice Strike Back? Law and the Decline and Uncertain Future of Strikes

Alan Bogg and Tonia Novtiz, eds., Voices at Work (Oxford University Press, 2014), 455-73., Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 58/2013
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2017
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 36 (288,725)

Abstract:

Strikes, Strike Frequency, Decline, Worker Voice, Labour Law, Labour Movement

24.

Uber and the Unmaking and Remaking of Taxi Capitalisms: Technology, Law and Resistance in Historical Perspective

Derek McKee, Finn Makela & Teresa Scassa, eds., Law and the “Sharing Economy": Regulating Online Market Platforms (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, Forthcoming). , Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 38/2017,
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Aug 2017
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 35 (383,171)

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Uber, Capitalism, Labour Law, Platform Economy

25.

That Indefinite Area of Toleration: Criminal Conspiracy and Trade Unions in Ontario, 1837-77

Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 27, pp. 15-54, 1991
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 28 Mar 2010
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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26.

The Law of Employers' Liability in Ontario 1861-1900: The Search for a Theory

Osgoode Hall Law Journal Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 213-280, 1984
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Jul 2011
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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27.

Making the Workplace 'Safe' in Capitalism: The Enforcement of Factory Legislation in Nineteenth Century Ontario

Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 21, pp. 45-86, 1988
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2011
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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28.

The Determination of Occupational Health and Safety Standards in Ontario 1860-1982: From Markets to Politics to...?

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 29, No. 215-259, 1984
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2013
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 19 (398,949)

Abstract:

health, safety, standards

29.

Industry and Humanity Revisited: Everything Old is New Again: Review of Paul C. Weiler, Governing the Workplace

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 36, pp. 1481-1500, 1991
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Jul 2011
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Abstract:

Wagner Act 1935, Paul C. Weiler, William Lyon Mackenzie King and labour, understanding labour conflict, conservative agenda and labour

30.

The Faces of Coercion: The Legal Regulation of Labor Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1889

Law and History Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 277-339, 1994
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 30 Mar 2010
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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The Gospel of Statutory Rules Requiring Liberal Interpretation According to St Peter's

University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 35, pp. 113-153, 1985
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2011
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886-1914

Barry Wright and Susan Binnie, eds., Canadian State Trials, Vol. III (Toronto: Osgoode Society, 2009), 257-93.
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2013
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Citation 1

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labour, law, public, disorder, policing

33.

Labour Rights in an Interregnum: The Ambiguous Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth

Jane Pulkingham, ed., Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), 65-90
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Oct 2013
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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The Compliance Model of Employment Standards Enforcement: An Evidence-Based Assessment of its Efficacy in Instances of Wage Theft

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The Compliance Model of Employment Standards Enforcement: An Evidence-Based Assessment of its Efficacy in Instances of Wage Theft

Journal of Industrial Relations, Forthcoming, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 50/2017
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Sep 2017
Leah F. Vosko, John Grundy, Eric Tucker, Mark P. Thomas, Andrea M. Noack, Rebecca Casey, Mary Gellatly and Jennifer Mussell
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, York University - Sociology, Ryerson University, York University, Parkdale Community Legal Services and York University
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Compliance, Employment Standards, Enforcement, Precarious Employment, Regulation

The Compliance Model of Employment Standards Enforcement: An Evidence‐Based Assessment of its Efficacy in Instances of Wage Theft

Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 48, Issue 3, pp. 256-273, 2017
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Aug 2017
Leah F. Vosko, John Grundy, Eric Tucker, Mark P. Thomas, Andrea M. Noack, Rebecca Casey, Mary Gellatly and Jennifer Mussell
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, York University - Sociology, Ryerson University, York University, Parkdale Community Legal Services and York University
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Canadian Strike Ballot Laws: Barely a Tempest in a Teapot

(2016) 29 Australian Journal of Labour Law 171-93, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 55/2017
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2017
Sara Slinn and Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads 0 (532,408)

Abstract:

Labor law, strike, vote

36.

When Wage Theft Was a Crime in Canada, 1935-1955

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 54(3), Forthcoming, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 45/2017
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2017
Eric Tucker
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Abstract:

Criminal Law, Employment Law, Legal History, Enforcement

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