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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... Canada Packers' worker, 1991 In late 1999, while the media quoted many a politician and prominent businessperson as ... Canadian polling company assessing surveys taken over the previous three years, expressed a growing sense of ...
... Canada Packers in Elora and Harriston, and Weavexx in 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 ...
... Canada Packers (see Winson 1993: Chapter 8). Numerous large urban meat-packing facilities have been closed down, while production has shifted to smaller centres as in the United States. Major employers, such as Maple Leaf Foods, which ...
... Canada Packers plant in Elora, a picturesque town in Wellington County, Ontario. In 1993 and 1994 we extended the ... Canadian context, and especially the role of the high technology sector (a problematic term that we discuss later in ...
... Canada's economy. Elora: The. Rise. and. Fall. of. a. Rural. Manufacturing. Community. We selected Elora because in 1991 it lost a major industry, Canada Packers' Stillmeadow agrifood-processing plant. Elora has a dramatic geographic ...
Contenido
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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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