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• Overview
• Class actions in England, North America, and Australia
• The early campaign for reform and the OLRC report
• The report of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Class Action Reform (1985-1993)
• Comparing the reports of the Ontario Law Reform Commission and the Attorney General's Advisory Committee
• Class actions twenty-five years on.

"The Ontario Class Proceedings Act, 1992 represented a major innovation in civil procedure. Suzanne Chiodo's book ... looks at the origins of representative proceedings in equity, the rise of modern-day class actions around the world (particularly in the United States and Quebec), and at the debates about the Ontario legislation. The book presents an ... analysis of the political and social influences that shaped this momentous legal change. It explains for the first time how the Attorney General's Advisory Committee Report in 1990 pulled together so many divergent interests where previous attempts had failed."-- Provided by publisher.

• List of Graphs, Tables, and Figures Authorship Acknowledgements Abbreviations
• 1. Mapping the Enforcement Gap: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics
• Part One: Charting the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario
• 2. Responsibilization, Reprisal and (Non)Remediation: Interrogating the role of an Individualized Complaints System 3. Administering Complaints: Dilemmas of Accountability 4. Recovering Employees' Wages? 5. The Contradictory Role of Workplace Inspections 6. The Deterrence Gap: Towards an Explanation 7. Strengthening Participatory Approaches to Enforcement
• Part Two: Views from Elsewhere: Contextualizing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario
• 8. Enforcement of Wage Recovery in Britain 9. Out of the Shadows and into the Spotlight: The Sweeping Evolution of Employment Standards Enforcement in Australia 10. Enforcing Employment Standards in Quebec: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward? 11. Strategic Enforcement to Confront Wage Theft in the US: An Insider Account 12. Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs
• Notes Supplementary Information on Quantitative & Qualitative Methods: Ontario Component
• Appendix A: Quantitative Data A.1. Administrative Data A.2. National Surveys
• Appendix B: Qualitative Data B.1. Worker Interviews B.2. MOL Interviews B.3. Community Representative Interviews
• Appendix C: Archival Research
• Bibliography Secondary Sources Primary Sources Government Documents Statistics Archival Sources
• Index Glossary.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains. Closing the Enforcement Gap offers a comprehensive analysis of the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario. Adopting mixed methods, this work includes qualitative research involving in-depth interviews with workers, community advocates, and enforcement officials; extensive archival research excavating decades of ministerial records; and analysis of a previously untapped source of administrative data collected by Ontario's Ministry of Labour. The authors reveal and trace the roots of a deepening "enforcement gap" that pervades nearly all aspects of the regime, demonstrating that the province's Employment Standards Act (ESA) fails too many workers who rely on the floor of minimum conditions it was devised to provide. Arguably, there is nothing inevitable about the enforcement gap in Ontario or for that matter elsewhere. Through contributions from leading employment standards enforcement scholars in the US, the UK, and Australia, as well as Quebec, Closing the Enforcement Gap surveys innovative enforcement models that are emerging in a variety of jurisdictions and sets out a bold vision for strengthening employment standards enforcement. Closing the Enforcement Gap Research Group Leah F. Vosko Guliz Akkaymak Rebecca Casey Shelley Condratto John Grundy Alan Hall Alice Hoe Kiran Mirchandani Andrea M. Noack Urvashi Soni-Sinha Mercedes Steedman Mark P. Thomas Eric M. Tucker International/Quebec Contributors Nick Clark Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau Tess Hardy John Howe Guylaine Vallee David Weil.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)