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Mainstream work and employment regulation, primarily based on a standard employment model, is largely ineffective in addressing gender inequality in industries organized around precarious, insecure work. This chapter uses the Canadian screen-based independent production sector as a case study to examine regulation of work and employment that is prototypically precarious, and an exemplar of gender inequality. The industry has high labor regulation distance and a mixture of male- and female-dominated occupations. Through an analysis of how cultural policy operates as a form of labor market regulation for the screen-based production sector, we argue for conceptualizing forms of labor market regulation more broadly. Analyzing the sector’s policy ecology enables us to identify new and non-traditional policy and regulatory mechanisms that address gender equality on an industrial scale.
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Coles, A., MacNeill, K. (2017). Policy Ecologies, Gender, Work, and Regulation Distance in Film and TV Production. In: Peetz, D., Murray, G. (eds) Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55495-6_12
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