Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Community in the New Rural EconomyUniversity of Toronto Press, 2002 M11 23 - 192 páginas Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the 'grassroots' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony Winson and Belinda Leach consider the impact of this restructuring on the residents of various communities. The authors argue that the new rural economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people's lives and, ultimately, it causes wrenching change and an arduous struggle as rural dwellers struggle to rebuild their lives in the new economic terrain. Beginning with broader theoretical and empirical literature on global changes in the economy and the effects of these changes on labour, the text then focuses exploration on manufacturing in Ontario with an analysis of five community case studies. Winson and Leach give considerable attention to the testimony of numerous residents; they report on in-depth interviews with key respondents and blue-collar workers in five separate communities, ranging from diverse manufacturing towns to single-industry settlements. The result is an intimate contextual knowledge of the workers' lives and their attempts to adapt to the tumultuous economic terrain of 1990s rural Canada. Winner of the John Porter Prize for 2003, awarded by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. |
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... Arnprior, is a more diversified and slightly larger community than any of the others and is located within striking distance of Ottawa – in what is sometimes referred to as Silicon Valley North, the acknowledged centre in Canada for ...
... Arnprior. On the other hand, corporate strategies are also to some extent shaped by, and themselves shape, local labour market conditions, such as the educational attainment of workers, the prevalence of part-time work, and the ...
... Arnprior. For Iroquois Falls, industrial restructuring was not easily associated with corporate downsizing through the kinds of mass lay-offs seen in the other communities. Rather, while still substantial, labour through its union was ...
... term that we discuss later in this chapter) in shaping its prospects. We interviewed workers laid off from a traditional manufacturing company in Arnprior, in the Ottawa Valley, where, because of the proximity to Methods of Inquiry.
... Arnprior includes both older, traditional manufacturing industries, as well as several companies classified as high tech firms. These high tech firms represent the jobs of the new economy. Some analysts and policy-makers see them as the ...
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The New Rural Economy and the Shape of Restructuring | 73 |
Skidding into the Contingent Work World | 113 |
Economic Diversity Sustainability | 155 |
Some Concluding Thoughts | 174 |
Notes | 187 |
Glossary | 201 |
Index | 221 |
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